{"product_id":"space-between-these-lines-not-dedicated","title":"Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe landmark book by the 2014\/15 Philadelphia poet laureate, beloved for its easy-going empathy \u0026amp; generous solidarity, it is also a glittering, detail-encrusted love-letter to cities of \"otherly love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e10 years later, Sherlock's achievement is as fresh, energizing \u0026amp; necessary as ever: Conjuring and ventriloquizing our voices, phrases, hopes, sky-blotting disappointments, manic crazy schemes \u0026amp; fevered dreams . . . then beaming them back at us, full force, until love grows wild again—through every crack in every heart and every sidewalk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe son of a secretary and a city worker—and winner of a 2013 Pew Fellowship—Sherlock's work has always sprung, root \u0026amp; branch, from the lives of ordinary folks, in relationships with others and their environments, as natural animals. In this, he's been aided immeasurably by his history as door-man at Dirty Frank's Bar in Philadelphia, regarded by its patrons and other discerning folks as the greatest Bar in the known universe.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSherlock's mission, then? \"Be a face for poetry. Raise the art form’s profile in the city. Chip away at the notion of poetry as a hermetic, alienated practice. Bring it into our everyday city living. Make it interactive. Participatory. Inviting.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAnd that has been, exactly, the growing gift of Frank's work, and why readers didn't greet this book and its poems with mere enthusiasm—they embraced it with a bear-hug from their soul. As will you—dig it.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank Sherlock \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eSpace Between These Lines Not Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e (ixnay press, 2014), \u003cem\u003eOver Here\u003c\/em\u003e (Factory School, 2009), \u003cem\u003eThe City Real \u0026amp; Imagined\u003c\/em\u003e (w\/ CAConrad) (Factory School, 2010), and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReady-to-Eat Individual\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePor Aquí\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a Spanish-language collection of works translated by Carlos Soto-Román, was published in Chile in the fall of 2014. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations\/performances\/exhibitions, including \u003cem\u003eRefuse\/Reuse: Language for the Common Landfill, Kensington Riots Project\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNeighbor Ballads\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eB.Franklin Basement Tapes\u003c\/em\u003e. Sherlock is a recipient of the 2013 Pew Fellowship in the Arts for literature. He was the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eon consignment via Dan Shepelavy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank Sherlock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50375298220317,"sku":"9781734534733","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/SpaceBetweenTheseLines_cover.jpg?v=1777481281","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/space-between-these-lines-not-dedicated","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}