{"product_id":"magavern-sam-loose-chanpb","title":"[12\/01\/26] Magavern, Sam: Loose Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eTupelo Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA luminous, darkly playful collection of poems that moves with equal ease through myth, scripture, history, domestic life, and the surreal textures of contemporary existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn three interwoven sections--\"King David,\" \"Loose Change,\" and \"Life with Atropos\"--Sam Magavern's \u003ci\u003eLoose Change\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines biblical figures, philosophers, ordinary laborers, animals, and dreamers with a voice that is by turns comic, tender, metaphysical, and elegiac. These poems assemble a mosaic of loss, desire, absurdity, memory, and endurance, finding flashes of beauty and meaning in the discarded, the humble, and the half-forgotten. With formal agility and a distinctive wit, \u003ci\u003eLoose Change\u003c\/i\u003e affirms poetry's power to transfigure the everyday while confronting time, mortality, and longing with both gravity and radiance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143461822487,"sku":"9781961209725","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71RnS7ljgpL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781997692","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/magavern-sam-loose-chanpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}