{"product_id":"what-needs-to-be-found-by-bob-heman","title":"What Needs to Be Found by Bob Heman","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat Needs to Be Found:\u003cbr\u003eselected early information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eA masterpiece of neo-absurdism, Bob Heman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhat Needs to be Found\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eSelected Early Information\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e, is a “book that change[s] the sky”. Sometimes resembling strange fables, at other times finding truths through unexpected juxtapositions and apposite incongruities, these marvelously succinct works home in on weird and salutary truths. Heman is internationally acclaimed for these wry meta-linguistic and genre-defying works of “Information,” and this superb volume showcases his early bear poems as well as his fascinating homages to bees, sleep, dreams, and language itself. Reader beware, “Behind the page something else is stirring.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eDistinguished Professor Cassandra Atherton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eProse Poetry: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton University Press)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eBob Heman's trademark Information poems attest to the old adage that “sometimes less is more.” That is, a small poem (yes, even a one-liner) can contain all manner of animal, vegetable, or mineral, making busy use of the sentences and conveying sprawling depths of thought. This distinctive poet has a gift for giving just enough details to let our own minds absorb, ponder, conjure, agree, and approve. He draws compelling contrasts of surreality juxtaposed against logical and concrete boundaries of familiar and steadfast objects such as compasses and maps. Everyday items do unexpected things. Doors and trees and hats are personified in ways that make them breathe between the lines. These poems are mood-setters, sometimes somber in tone but not without sly bits of wit and wordplay. And although the poet admonishes us to “avoid the forest,” it is precisely within a deep forest of inspired originality that these poems reside. They often seem to come out of nowhere and everywhere at once, tumbling randomly yet orderly from the sky, or through tunnels, walls, and crevices. In the poem “ALWAYS THE ANIMAL,” Heman's (ubiquitous) bears “can't stop singing.” My hunch is it is because they enjoyed reading this generous and riveting collection as much as I did.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eCindy Hochman, author of \u003ci\u003eI Am the Girl \u003c\/i\u003eand co-author \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; margin-right: -0.22in; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ewith Bob Heman of \u003ci\u003eThe Number 5 is Always Suspect\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #222222;\"\u003eThis book contains information sorely needed by minds weeping from, and furious at, the current cultural malaise that seems to take undue pride in sleepwalking. These are poems that drift into consciousness and raise it to the nth power and burn effigies of complacency. Drive forward with the coordinates from these poems and never look back.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in; font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eGian Lombardo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"right\" style=\"font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0in; font-variant: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eEditor\/Publisher, Quale Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback\u003c\/b\u003e, 124 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Madhat, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-1-968422-17-2\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45866705453165,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/files\/WhatNeeds.jpg?v=1789569605","url":"https:\/\/madhat-press.com\/products\/what-needs-to-be-found-by-bob-heman","provider":"MadHat Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}