{"product_id":"sublimation-point-9781884800610","title":"Sublimation Point","description":"\"...[T]he tradition this young poet most significantly keeps alive in them is the great poetic tradition of wit as serious means. In such writing, wit -- as the old expression has it -- cuts to the quick.\" (Robert Pinsky for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSublimation Point \u003c\/i\u003eis like a perfect pop song, making the listener glad to be alive. Jason Schneiderman doesn't strive for complication: he wins us over with rueful plain-speaking. He has Anne Sexton's directness, Max Jacob's eye for incongruity. Tragedy enters the picture, and becomes the frame: nowhere do these poems forget their nemesis, mortality.\" (Wayne Koestenbaum) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Grave, sweetly questioning, often irreverently funny, Jason Schneiderman's poems about love and death, the Holocaust and family history, self knowledge and self deception give this book a range and tonal variety that is extremely rare for any poet, let alone a first book: Schneiderman has imagined his work broadly, and executed it with great skill, passion, and intelligence.\" (Tom Sleigh)","brand":"Jason Schneiderman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52146220433691,"sku":"9781884800610","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/img_61dae748-4a93-4787-98e5-286ae8ddb1db.jpg?v=1777596979","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/products\/sublimation-point-9781884800610","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}