{"product_id":"the-wug-test-poems-9780062564580","title":"The Wug Test: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of language-driven, imaginative poetry from the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series Open Competition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Kronovet's poetry is inflected by her fraught, ecstatic relationship with language--sentences, words, phonemes, punctuation--and how meaning is both gained and lost in the process of communicating. Having lived all over the world, both using her native tongue and finding it impossible to use, Kronovet approaches poems as tactile, foreign objects, as well as intimate, close utterances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Wug Test, \u003c\/em\u003e named for a method by which a linguist discovered how deeply imprinted the cognitive instinct toward acquiring language is in children, Kronovet questions whether words are objects we should escape from or embrace. Dispatches of text from that researcher, Walt Whitman, Ferdinand de Saussure, and the poet herself, among other voices, are mined for their futility as well as their beauty, in poems that are technically revealing and purely pleasurable. Throughout, a boy learns how to name and ask for those things that makes up his world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 10\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062564580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/19\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2016 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Kronovet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924812042421,"sku":"9780062564580","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6fede48c-6562-4fbf-b341-13a4eaa87683.jpg?v=1687838789","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-wug-test-poems-9780062564580","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}