{"product_id":"durable-goods-9781550656107","title":"Durable Goods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDurable Goods\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, \u003cb\u003eJames Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to kettles, sprinklers to umbrellas, with a precision both unerring and effortless. By conjuring the essential spirit of each object, the poet reveals the tools and appliances that surround us as both sympathetic reflections of ourselves--our fear, love, rage, hope, and grief--and strange beings with inner lives of their own. \"It knows how much pressure you've been under,\" \u003cb\u003ePollock\u003c\/b\u003e writes, of the barometer, \"that you could use a change of atmosphere.\" Read together, these poems immerse us in an imagined world with the power to make us see our own in a new way. Suffused with dazzling wordplay, razor wit, and rippling sonic effects, the poems richly reward being read aloud. Indeed, for \u003cb\u003ePollock\u003c\/b\u003e, the most durable good is language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signal Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550656107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80","brand":"James Pollock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42607890268341,"sku":"9781550656107","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_95cdcfb3-e4af-4d23-b1f1-3a17ad8261dd.jpg?v=1674573764","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/durable-goods-9781550656107","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}