{"product_id":"prufer-kevin-good-peoplpb","title":"[05\/04\/27] Prufer, Kevin: Good People","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 4, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Prufer's \u003cem\u003eGood People \u003c\/em\u003ewonders, \"What can poetry preserve against erasure?\" as history presses in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Kevin Prufer's eleventh collection, \u003cem\u003eGood People, \u003c\/em\u003ethe uneasy forces of history, imagination, and memory collide. As morally dubious characters remember only the events that suit their stories best, narratives fracture and decades collapse across a single line break. Published under the setting sun of the American dream, these poems exhume the mundane violences that belie our modern comforts: A television broadcasts scenes of war into an otherwise cozy living room; a kitten, asleep in a truck engine, perishes at the turn of the ignition. Shifting effortlessly from brutal to tender, darkly comic to philosophical, \u003cem\u003eGood People \u003c\/em\u003easks us, good people ourselves, what our relationship to history must be when \"the present has nothing to say back to it \/ that it can hear.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45720657821719,"sku":"9781556597459","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Draw_book_491e31ac-1f11-40dc-b05e-89b5d7a4106d.png?v=1791498661","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/prufer-kevin-good-peoplpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}