{"product_id":"signed-copy-of-lynn-robert-wood-mothman-apologia","title":"Signed copy of Lynn, Robert Wood: Mothman Apologia","description":"\u003cp\u003eYale University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 22, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eThe latest volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\"These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the elegy, here, as much an exaltation of the living as a mournful dirge for the land.\"--Major Jackson, Vanderbilt University\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia's famed cryptid) reluctantly coming of age in that state's mountains and struggling with the utility of warnings. These are narrative poems of love and grief, built from a storytelling tradition. Taken together they form an arc encompassing the experience of growing up, looking away, and looking back. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection was selected by prestigious poet Rae Armantrout to become the 116th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40539399454743,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail-16_aca31db7-78d2-457c-b083-aa191cf0855b.gif?v=1680297174","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/signed-copy-of-lynn-robert-wood-mothman-apologia","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}