{"product_id":"wind-in-the-cave-paperback","title":"Wind in the Cave - 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\u003eJames B. Nicola\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is the Wind in the Cave? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt's the title of James B. Nicola's third poetry collection, as well as \u003c\/em\u003ethe queasy feeling in your gut that accompanies love, loss, addiction, aging, and the like--and through it all, ultimately, triumph. \"Love poems\" abound--but each comes with a \u003cem\u003etwist\u003c\/em\u003e, whether of whimsy, wit, resilience, or . . . revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of these pieces are narrative (Nicola won a People's Choice award from \u003cem\u003eStoryteller\u003c\/em\u003e magazine) while others are metaphysical, metaphorical, or humorous. Stylistically they range from free verse to formal (he has been a featured poet at \u003cem\u003eNew Formalist). \u003c\/em\u003eA Yale graduate, Nicola has also won a Dana Literary Award and, for his nonfiction book \u003cem\u003ePlaying the Audience, \u003c\/em\u003e a \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e magazine award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the wind whistles in many more hearts than those whose love has gone south. In one poem, for instance, Charlie Brown, who is now a well-adjusted adult, visits Lucy, who is not. A second offers a soul a premature glimpse of his name on a gravestone, while a crow caws and the wind wooshes. Yet another serves up a \"Daddy\" poem that Sylvia Plath never could have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames B. Nicola's poems have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eAntioch, Southwest \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/em\u003es, \u003cem\u003eRattle\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry East\u003c\/em\u003e. His nonfiction book, \u003cem\u003ePlaying the Audience\u003c\/em\u003e, won a \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e award. His two poetry collections, published by Word Poetry, are \u003cem\u003eManhattan Plaza\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and \u003cem\u003eStage to Page: Poems from the Theater\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer writes: \"These poems are willing... to be wrestled by darkness, to be lost and unpetalled and burned. And Nicola writes them with such lush language, such subtle meters, that we find ourselves hypnotized.\" Meanwhile, best-selling author and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht \u003cem\u003e(Doubt, Stay)\u003c\/em\u003e calls \u003cem\u003eWind in the Cave\u003c\/em\u003e \"a weird and beautiful book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs per page 87, \u003cem\u003eRisk the agony.... Risk the ecstasy. Feel every breeze on your moistened face ... stung by sweet storms.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118\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 December 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46233291096261,"sku":"9781635343649","price":35.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/XJmR0psUmv9781635343649.webp?v=1778961251","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/wind-in-the-cave-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}