{"product_id":"9780393243512","title":"Divine Nothingness: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the National Book Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThis Time\u003c\/em\u003e, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eDivine Nothingness\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in Lambertville, Gerald Stern explores questions about who and why we are, locating nothingness in the divine and the divine in nothingness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eFrom “What Brings Me Here?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Here I am again and what brings me here\u003cbr\u003e to the same wooden bench\u003cbr\u003e preaching to the city of Lambertville\u003cbr\u003e surrounded by mayapples?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For who in the hell is going to lie down with whom in the hell,\u003cbr\u003e either inside or outside?\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121468686576,"sku":"9780393243512","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393243512_p0.jpg?v=1763696990","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393243512","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}