{"product_id":"mcgrath-campbell-seven-notepb","title":"McGrath, Campbell: Seven Notebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eEcco, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 03, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ant to the stars\u003cbr\u003eor stars to the ant--which is\u003cbr\u003emore irrelevant?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeekend Jet Skiers--\u003cbr\u003erude to call them idiots,\u003cbr\u003eyes, but facts are facts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eSuch is the expansive terrain of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomposes 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","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817107795991,"sku":"9780061254659","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71h_UlZ0piL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1711059462","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/mcgrath-campbell-seven-notepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}