{"product_id":"9780061254659","title":"Seven Notebooks","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e An ant to the stars\u003cbr\u003e or stars to the ant—which is\u003cbr\u003e more irrelevant? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Weekend Jet Skiers—\u003cbr\u003e rude to call them idiots,\u003cbr\u003e yes, but facts are facts. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Clamor of seabirds\u003cbr\u003e as the sun falls—I look up\u003cbr\u003e and ten years have passed.\"\u003cbr\u003e —from \"Dawn Notebook\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e Such is the expansive terrain of \u003ci\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that veers from incanta­tory to deadpan, these seven poetic sequences offer diverse reflections on language and poetry, time and consciousness, civilization and art—to say nothing of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas. Taken collectively, \u003ci\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e composes a season-by-season account of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring in Chicago to summer at the Jersey Shore to winter in Miami Beach. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a lyric chronicle, this utterly unique book reclaims territory long abandoned by American poetry, a characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged writers of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046167429360,"sku":"9780061254659","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061254659_p0.jpg?v=1763769179","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061254659","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}