{"product_id":"9780061980329","title":"My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest’s \u003cem\u003eMy Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge \u003c\/em\u003eis an audaciously brilliant collection—a compendium of honesty, strange beauty, and pain—poems Louis Gluck calls, “urgent and moving,” and Robert Haas calls, “vibrant with news of the world seen from an angle of experience not available to most of us.” Mary Karr says, “Guest is a spirit to be reckoned with. Here’s a body of new work to cheer about.” Guest's first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry, and his second book, \u003cem\u003eNotes for My Body Double, \u003c\/em\u003ewon the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His memoir, \u003cem\u003eOne More Theory About Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e will be available in May 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119311798512,"sku":"9780061980329","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061980329_p0.jpg?v=1763624473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061980329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}