{"product_id":"midflight-paperback","title":"Midflight - 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\u003eDavid Corcoran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA posthumous collection, \u003ci\u003eMidflight\u003c\/i\u003e collects the poems written by beloved science editor and journalist David Corcoran in the latter part of his life. Idling in a space between the pastoral and the ordinary, Corcoran's lyrical world maps the sublime mundanity of nature while exploring memory, dreams, and consciousness itself. Corcoran's lines abound with figures living and long deceased, with the dead walking onstage as if they never left. Describing the accident that killed his father when he was a toddler in \"Here,\" Corcoran writes, \"the door [opens] in midflight \/ and [pitches] him out.\" In \"Last Questions,\" he asks, \"Are you my brother or \/ a mockingbird?\" While these haunting, vivid poems have an aching prescience, imbued as they are with the awareness of human ephemerality, the gift they proffer, to the writer and the reader at once, is the sense of finding oneself midflight, in midair, betwixt sky and ground, in the free fall of being--going and going and never gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Corcoran was born in New York City in 1947 and was raised in nearby Rockland County. A lifelong journalist, he began his career as a boy, covering sports at the local paper. He attended Amherst College and continued in newspapers, ultimately working as a writer and editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where he retired as editor of the weekly section, \u003ci\u003eScience Times\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Adirondack Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFovea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePodium\u003c\/i\u003e. David Corcoran died in 2019. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50405782192365,"sku":"9781954245105","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/midflight-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}