{"product_id":"night-day-9781450097086","title":"Night \u0026 Day","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaska has written works alternately described as bold and memorableand with a hair-raising comic vitality. Given the complexity of his occasionally dark, unabashedly political, philosophical and underground writings, he [can be described] as an Appalachian Fyodor Dostoyevsky. --Jeff Biggers, Contributing Editor to The Bloomsbury ReviewEschewing conventional poetic fashion, Laskas engaging collection of over three decades of writings in the shadow of corporate domination is a sweeping poetic and prosaic, lyrical and anti-lyrical assemblage of thought-provoking epigrams, puns, and philosophical dialogues, together with voices and vignettes of a by-passed America. From the stripped-mined hills and hollows of Appalachia to the banal debris of urban streets, his work unfolds, with respectful understatement, the on-going global desecration of inner and outer life. With patient yet alarmed urgency he brings to the surface an ecological counter-tradition whose contours trace back as far as the ancient Chinese Dao De Jing. -- Csaba Polony, Editor, Left CurveNIGHT \u0026amp; DAY is an iconoclastic 35 year poetic chronicle of Americas OCD. With a smiling grimace the author journeys to the psychological interior of the Homeland, sees through the nations repetition compulsion and self-protective historical amnesia, and returns with Zen-like epigrams, satires, dialogues, and a set of healing philosophical Maxims of Access.BOOK REVIEW:The Past Finds Its Way Home, September 23, 2010 By Sacramento Book Review \"Sacramento Book Review\" (Sacramento, CA) This review is from: Night \u0026amp; Day: A collection of poems (Paperback) by P. J. Laska \"O the fabulous histories\/of fleeting things remain\/each once and ever instant\/ effervescent, like the faces\/youll remember years hence\/when the hills are mythic\/fictions of the night sky--\/a moon will rise in memory\/over Morgantown,\/ and youll be thinking\/what if what if what if...\" P.J. Laska `s collection of poems is a tour de force in the examination of a disappearing homeland, the governments gross and compulsive negligence, and the way back to a place of home through philosophical musings. Laska has portrayed a fertile landscape of a working-class citizenship; coal miners, janitors, salesmen across the rich diversities of the Appalachians. But it could be anywhere, anywhere there is history and the undying thirst to regain its story. \/\/Night \u0026amp; Day\/\/ is a revolutionary documentary shaped by Laskas skill and free-thinking awareness. He has crafted this collection into three very distinct and thought-provoking sections, each lending a vivid picture created on a palette of carefully blended \"anti-lyrics.\" His style reaches from haiku to epigrammatic dialogue to philosophical conversations to a one-act play. The different forms make for a seamless flow and keeps the reader engaged in an almost voyeuristic indulgence. The images are seen, felt, and experienced, \"Quick-dipping\/their heads, they\/roll silvery drops\/down their backs\/then shimmy\/the dust\/from their wings.\" His eye for the senses is clearly evident, a profound craftsmanship on each page. The main theme points to loss and the restitution of a culture, a reinstatement of what has vanished, what has been taken, or rather, an intense look back at a sober lingering. The governments involvement is one of disdain, but what strikes me is the search for meaning through philosophical traditions, the hope for a return to nature, and what is whole from a place of drought. In many ways, these poems are odes and pieces of the subjects soul. This is a call, an invitation, to query. I accept.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53028061151511,"sku":null,"price":1213.44,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781450097086.jpg?v=1780992658","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/products\/night-day-9781450097086","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}