{"product_id":"9780060593674","title":"Face: A Novella in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid St. John is among the most innovative and accomplished poets writing today. In crafting \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e, a daring book-length sequence of poems, he has created a highly original novella in verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems evoke the disintegration of a man as he confronts the failure of love and descends into a hellish dark night of the soul. They explore the drama of the shattered self in a variety of voices, calling on memory to speak and imagination to make beauty from the shards. Slowly the speaker reassembles his life and finds a new faith in himself and in the world. David St. John's poems reveal a swirling cinematic poetry of visionary scope — meditative and confessional in some moments, ironic and playful in others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply passionate and raw in its candor, \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e may be for this generation of poets what Robert Lowell's \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and John Ashbery's \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e were for theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013613797616,"sku":"9780060593674","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060593674_p0.jpg?v=1763619626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060593674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}