{"product_id":"2940045808316","title":"Clare's Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe seventh full-length collection of poems from Jordan Smith, the Edward E. Hale Jr., Professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, New York, is a fantasia on the life and work of John Clare. Of his inspiration, Professor Smith writes: \"Although it draws on Clare's writings and on the available biographies, it makes no pretense to biographical accuracy. Clare's poems interested me because of the combination of a natural sympathy, sometimes sentimental or conventional but often deeply felt especially for creatures or people on the margins, and a ferocity that arose both from the rigors of the natural world and from a sense of injustice at what humans do so readily to that world and to each other. Clare's life, a series of almost impossible negotiations between ignorance and knowledge, gift and condescension, poetry and privilege, appetite and refinement, seemed to me to raise issues that have hardly gone away: class, liberty, ecological responsibility, the rights of imagination and the rights of property. The intent of the poems is to present moments from that life at a high pitch of tension and to consider how little has changed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hydroelectric Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108357849328,"sku":"2940045808316","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045808316_p0.jpg?v=1763980834","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045808316","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}