{"product_id":"06-07-2022-the-true-account-of-myself-as-a-bird-by-robert-wrigley","title":"Wrigley, Robert: The True Account of Myself as a Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguin, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: June 7, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan class=\"src-ti\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"src-ti\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOver the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses.  In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation between human beings and the perilously threatened planet on which they love and live, proceeding from a line from Auden:  “All we are not stares back at what we are.”  In language that is both elegiac and playful, declarative and yet ringingly musical; in traditional sonnets, quatrains, and free verse, Wrigley transcribes the consciousness and significance of every singing thing—in order to sing back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39844585308183,"sku":"9780143137245","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9780143137245_64c06.jpg?v=1643852479","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/06-07-2022-the-true-account-of-myself-as-a-bird-by-robert-wrigley","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}