{"product_id":"seven-notebooks-poems-9780061254659","title":"Seven Notebooks: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn ant to the stars\u003cbr\u003eor stars to the ant--which is\u003cbr\u003emore irrelevant?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeekend Jet Skiers--\u003cbr\u003erude to call them idiots, \u003cbr\u003eyes, but facts are facts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClamor of seabirds\u003cbr\u003eas the sun falls--I look up\u003cbr\u003eand ten years have passed.\"\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Dawn Notebook\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch is the expansive terrain of \u003cem\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that veers from incanta-tory to deadpan, these seven poetic sequences offer diverse reflections on language and poetry, time and consciousness, civilization and art--to say nothing of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas. Taken collectively, \u003cem\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e composes a season-by-season account of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring in Chicago to summer at the Jersey Shore to winter in Miami Beach. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a lyric chronicle, this utterly unique book reclaims territory long abandoned by American poetry, a characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061254659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Campbell McGrath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43568643113141,"sku":"9780061254659","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ee853813-af24-47e0-aac9-f00f0343777f.jpg?v=1706628053","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seven-notebooks-poems-9780061254659","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}