{"product_id":"wenderoth-joe-it-is-if-ipb","title":"Wenderoth, Joe: It Is If I Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003eWesleyan, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 17, 2000\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies \"It is if I speak that I will be destroyed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, \"Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses.\" His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, \"owing is all that really happens,\" and lives are shaped by the refusal to \"sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817188569111,"sku":"9780819563903","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71Gi6PVTq2L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767994872","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wenderoth-joe-it-is-if-ipb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}