{"product_id":"for-display-purposes-only-9781552452745","title":"For Display Purposes Only","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers' flights and turnings through the blizzard. This is a different world, and we live in it.\" --Paul Farley\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFor Display Purposes Only\u003c\/i\u003e is fighting trim, and poem after poem is a knockout blow.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are met at the front door of this book by an energized curiosity and a humane amusement. Worlds only notionally, minimally there become fully dimensioned, clearly edged under Seymour's attention. David Seymour is a magician.\"--Tim Lilburn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems pause for the spectacle--cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides--to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection, \u003ci\u003eInter Alia\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. He works in the film industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552452745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"David Seymour","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51798393716917,"sku":"9781552452745","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f40e0825-24cc-4feb-bd20-8601a8d1cc42.jpg?v=1758638436","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/for-display-purposes-only-9781552452745","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}