{"product_id":"9780393243987","title":"The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic.”—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gathering works from five of B. H. Fairchild's previous volumes stretching over thirty years, and adding twenty-six brilliant new poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Buick\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the career of a poet who represents \"the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cp\u003eFairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns, in taverns, baseball fields, one-screen movie theaters, and skies \"vast, mysterious, and bored.\" Ultimately, its cultural scope—where Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline, with Grunewald, Gödel, and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950s—transcends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the mysteries of time and being. And finally there is the character of Roy Eldridge Garcia, a machinist\/poet\/philosopher who sees in the landscape and silence of the high plains the held breath of the earth, \"as if we haven't quite begun to exist. That coming into being still going on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the machine work elevated to high art that is the subject of \u003cem\u003eThe Arrival of the Future\u003c\/em\u003e (1985) to the despairing dreamers of \u003cem\u003eEarly Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest\u003c\/em\u003e (2002) to the panoramic, voice-driven structure of \u003cem\u003eUsher\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), Fairchild's work, \"meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, stakes out an American mythos\" (David Ulin, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \"The Blue Buick:\"\u003cbr\u003e A boy standing on a rig deck looks across the plains.\u003cbr\u003e A woman walks from a trailer to watch the setting sun.\u003cbr\u003e A man stands beside a lathe, lighting a cigar.\u003cbr\u003e Imagined or remembered, a girl in Normandy\u003cbr\u003e Sings across a sea, that something may remain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121505714416,"sku":"9780393243987","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393243987_p0.jpg?v=1763696685","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393243987","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}