{"product_id":"9780061751516","title":"Seven Notebooks","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ant to the stars\u003cbr\u003eor stars to the ant—which is\u003cbr\u003emore irrelevant?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeekend Jet Skiers—\u003cbr\u003erude to call them idiots,\u003cbr\u003eyes, but facts are facts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClamor of seabirds\u003cbr\u003eas the sun falls—I look up\u003cbr\u003eand ten years have passed.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"Dawn Notebook\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch is the expansive terrain of \u003cem\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/em\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, \u003cem\u003eSeven Notebooks\u003c\/em\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","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105219002608,"sku":"9780061751516","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061751516_p0.jpg?v=1769909664","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061751516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}