{"product_id":"9780061995187","title":"Ideal Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e“These poems are so generous, so bright and sharp, so funny and winning, they feel immense.” \u003cbr\u003e—Paul Guest\u003c?xml \u0026#58;namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn\u0026#58;schemas-microsoft-com\u0026#58;office\u0026#58;office\" \/\u003e\u003co\u003e\u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003co\u003e \u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Erika Meitner is the new voice of intelligent and emotional poems. Good for poetry. Good for poetry lovers. Good for the rest of us, too.”\u003cbr\u003e— Nikki Giovanni \u003co\u003e\u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003co\u003e \u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring themes of pregnancy, motherhood, ancestry, and life in the borderline slums of Washington, DC, the richly felt and adroit poetry of Erika Meitner’s \u003cem\u003eIdeal Cities \u003c\/em\u003emoves, mesmerizes, and delights. The work of an important emerging voice in contemporary American poetry—a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by Paul Guest—\u003cem\u003eIdeal Cities \u003c\/em\u003egloriously perpetuates NPS’s long-standing tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets.\u003co\u003e\u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046641746160,"sku":"9780061995187","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061995187_p0.jpg?v=1763775220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061995187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}