{"product_id":"9780307268457","title":"They Lift Their Wings to Cry","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection, titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket, gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of nature and to the folly and magnificence of human undertakings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the opening poem, the poet comes home drunk without his key, collapses in the yard, and looks up to where, he says: \u003cbr\u003eWhorls of a magnetic field exfoliated under the solar wind,\u003cbr\u003eso that the northern lights above me trembled. No: that was the porch light blurred by tears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this self-deprecating wit and tenderness toward human failings, these poems search through history into the wilderness of our origins, and through the self into the mysterious presences of people we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA master of moods—as when a poem of grief after the death of a friend becomes a sprightly litany of her favorite wildflowers—Haxton is a poet who summons essences of thought and feeling in a few words, creating both narratives and miniatures that are rich in possibility beyond the page. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISAAC’S ROOM, EMPTY, 4 A.M.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the dark tree at his window blossoms battered by the rain fell into the summer grass, white horns, all spattered down the throat with purple ink, while unseen birds, \u003cbr\u003ewith creaks and peeps and whistles, started the machinery of daybreak.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012612604144,"sku":"9780307268457","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307268457_p0.jpg?v=1763671599","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307268457","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}