{"product_id":"9780375710810","title":"God's Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eWalking to Martha’s Vineyard\u003c\/i\u003e. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens \u003ci\u003eGod’s Silence\u003c\/i\u003e with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility. He shares his private rules for bus riding (“No eye contact: the eyes of the terrified \/ terrify”), and recalls, among other experiences, his first encounter with a shotgun, as an eight-year-old boy (“In a clearing in the cornstalks . . . it was suggested \/ that I fire \/ on that muttering family of crows”). Throughout this volume, Wright continues his penetrating study of his own and our collective soul. He reaches a new level of acceptance as he intones the paradox “I have heard God’s silence like the sun,” and marvels at our presumptions:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe speak of Heaven who have not yet accomplished even this, the holiness of things precisely as they are, and never will!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough Wright often seeks forgiveness in these poems, his black wit and self-deprecation are reliably present, and he delights in reminding us that “literature will lose, sunlight will win, don’t worry.”\u003cbr\u003eBut in this book, literature wins as well. \u003ci\u003eGod’s Silence \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply felt celebration of what poetry (and its silences) can do for us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012347183344,"sku":"9780375710810","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375710810_p0.jpg?v=1763692142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375710810","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}