{"product_id":"black-aperture-9780807150863","title":"Black Aperture","description":"In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In Outgoing, the speaker erases his brother s answering machine message to save his family from the shame of dead you \/ answering calls. In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, a flower \/ of smoldering filaments. A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, a tinfoil lake, vegetables \/ dying in the crisper. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Louisiana State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807150863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.54w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Walt Whitman Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Minnesota Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist","brand":"Matt Rasmussen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644073308316,"sku":"9780807150863","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9db2186e-f9b7-4167-87af-364611cc91e7.jpg?v=1603857854","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/black-aperture-9780807150863","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}