{"product_id":"barely-there-hardcover","title":"Barely There: Short Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYahia Lababidi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flashy poets and the poets with a schtick get the big audience, but it is the quiet poets whose individual poems more often linger with me. I'd trade all of Ginsberg, say, for William Bronk's six-line poem \"After Bach,\" which derives from the cello suites the lesson that sadness \"can be in part \/to accept the absence of One to say it to.\" And it is Bronk whose work is called to mind for me by Yahia Lababidi's Barely There, in which \"in embracing, we let go.\"' -- H. L. Hix, Author of First Fire, Then Birds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American thinker and Pushcart-nominated poet, whose work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. To date, Lababidi is the author of 4 well-received books, in 4 different genres: \u003ci\u003eSignposts to Elsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e (aphorisms), \u003ci\u003eTrial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing\u003c\/i\u003e (essays), \u003ci\u003eFever Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e (poems), and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Artist as Mystic\u003c\/i\u003e (conversations).\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117185536135,"sku":"9781498268349","price":31.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/151eb24ccc23adec3f906998992d43f7.webp?v=1732522202","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/barely-there-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}