{"product_id":"clouds-upside-down-among-the-flowers-new-selected-paperback","title":"Clouds Upside Down Among the Flowers:: New \u0026 Selected - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCal Bedient\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry that imagines how to live with realness, creativity, and vibrance.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eClouds Upside Down Among the Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e speak to the emotionally and existentially tough challenge presented by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in \u003ci\u003eWhat is Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e: \"It may be that believing in this world, in this life, becomes our most difficult task.\"Filled with wit, color, and high-spirited invention, these selected poems offer no room for softness and sentiment. They carry variant voices, whispers like dramatic asides, and mind-expanding assertions as they reveal their layers and nuances. Bedient confronts disasters of politics, love, and faithless time, never turning away from the glinting axe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This collection also includes new poems that are direct in dealing with the difficulties of keeping faith through life. They recognize that making something--for instance, poetry--is necessary to coach the world into realness and render oneself real in the process, a journey of both intensive investigation and creativity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCal Bedient\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of criticism, including \u003ci\u003eEight Contemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHe Do the Police in Many Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yeats Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e, along with five poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eCandy Necklace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of the Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Days of Unwilling\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Multiple\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Breathing Place\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a founding editor of the California New Poetry Prize and is a founding coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLana Turner\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have been published in \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters and Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBennington Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConduit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVOLT\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. He lives in Santa Monica, California. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46661625872581,"sku":"9781632432131","price":32.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/9cAuuryvZK9781632432131.webp?v=1785907691","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/clouds-upside-down-among-the-flowers-new-selected-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}