Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
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"Parker is articulate and provocative, seeing the poetry in the ordinary and the wonderful in the world." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Parker offers some loose advice for living (give money to panhandlers whole-heartedly, because doing so means participating in 'the same divine economy that big-banged you into being'), but is at his best when poring over life's strange resonances...pays vivid homage to the beauty of the mundane." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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