{"id":14083,"date":"2023-09-24T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14083"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:59:58","slug":"king-of-prussia","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/king-of-prussia\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/marc-vincenz\">Marc Vincenz<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3><em>The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>ISBN 978-1-956921-22-9 (paperback)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>120 pages: $19.95<br \/>\nJanuary, 2024<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this newest collection by award-winning multilingual poet and translator, Marc Vincenz, we traverse lunarscapes and more earthly seasonal time-spaces. <em>The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars<\/em>\u00a0is a liminal peek into the galaxy of our mortality where, like Ray Bradbury\u2019s<em> Illustrated Man<\/em>, death is inscribed on our bodies. These poems explore the moment our passions challenge our destinies, when \u201csummer has forgotten us,\u201d and when we travel into the eternal blue of the mind and find the \u201cdomed umbrella of light:\u201d an essential prayer to life on earth and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf it were my death tonight, \/ all those old taboos \/\/ would melt into my skin \/ in their hunt for meaning,\u201d Marc Vincenz tells us in his remarkable new collection, <i>The King of Prussia Is Drunk on Stars.<\/i> And melt they do, blurring reality and imagination; his words and images probe the protective layers of the human endeavor to act, to make art, to love.\u2026 Vincenz\u2019s images startle with a disarming profundity, interrogating the dark places\u2014yet places that always yield the light of possibility that language offers: \u201ca place like none other, soaked \/ in heavenly light, where deep down in the water \/ you can see where the darkness lives.\u201d \u2026. Vincenz says, \u201cFill in all the wilderness, \/ will you. I know: \/\/ Love me in one death.\u201d Yet the poet\u2019s persistence endures.\u2026 Marc Vincenz\u2019s stunning new book is an intoxicating adventure, presenting language anew, and creating swirling worlds of sorrow and resolve. \u201cLet\u2019s open up the world for a day,\u201d he tells us. \u201cPut your feet up. This is a soundproof mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>\u2014George Kalamaras, Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014\u20132016)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What do we make of our before\u2019s afterlives? Marc Vincenz\u2019s\u00a0<i>The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars<\/i>\u00a0proffers a <i>Wunderkammer<\/i> of adventures, voices, parallel cries, to make us believe in the porosity of the world. Is it ours, inhabited by gods or ghosts? \u201cHeave ho, Li Po!\u201d Are we in a movie, a painting, a wine-soaked dream? Things are not what they seem. Vincenz conjures a centaur poetics where anything may be attached to anything else: \u201cfrom the underside of the world she emerged as an eel \/ out of the carcass of a waterlogged horse.\u201d Homophonic play keeps the narrative loose\u2014\u201cthe left hand turns the key, unattached, artfully\u201d\u2014and a comestible peck of prose poems stocks the larder. Hold on, it\u2019s a drunken sleigh ride, a Franz become Franzl after the trifle: \u201cwe were jaded in the scale, just above where the fleshy part dwells, or perhaps, on another scale, we had found the best flesh.\u201d\u00a0What a wonderful bacchanalian pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u2014<\/b><\/span><b>Matthew Cooperman<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This elegant, beautifully crafted collection moves effortlessly between Earth\u2014with sidewalks splattered with dead letters, patches of tar and pitch, geese colluding in the hedgerows\u2014and the heavens, where multiple moons cast wary glances, and the stars are witness to grass yearning upward. Like wings drawn to light, \u201ceverything finally ends up in the sky.\u201d In between, in the section \u201cA Year of Icelandic Ash,\u201d the poet finds everyday meaning in the mysteries of the <i>hulduf\u00f3lk,<\/i> supernatural beings of Icelandic folklore, bridging two realms with quotidian words that still speak (of) magic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>\u2014Sharon Messmer<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Vincenz<br \/>\n9781956921229<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">&#8220;&#8230;a <i>Wunderkammer<\/i> of adventures, voices, parallel cries&#8230;&#8221;\u2014Matthew Cooperman<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16],"product_tag":[86,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-14083","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-lavender-ink","7":"product_tag-marc-vincenz","8":"product_tag-poetry","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple","16":"berocket_lgv_grid","17":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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