{"product_id":"9780679766032","title":"The Willow Grove","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappear \"into the undertow \/ of hunger for the next thing and the next,\" and mannequins \"stand in their angelic armor.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaced at intervals throughout these pages is a series of poems entitled \"From The Book of Persephone,\" poems that explore the underworld through a fractured contemporary lens, depicting it as a psychological landscape of isolation and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Mona Van Duyn said of Laurie Sheck's previous book, Io at Night, \"When her sensibility and the reverberating myth are in perfect conjunction, the extraordinary happens: the mythical figure enters the poet's imagination so consumingly that it is impossible to tell whose life, whose feelings fill the form on the page.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027377373424,"sku":"9780679766032","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679766032_p0.jpg?v=1763608845","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679766032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}