{"product_id":"9780807157435","title":"Skandalon: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Christian theology, a skandalon is a distraction from grace, a maze of error where we wander pointlessly, wasting our lives. To the ancient Greeks, a skandalon was the trigger of a trap. T. R. Hummer's labyrinthine new collection encompasses these meanings and more, as its poems take various paths -- some beguiling, some grotesque, some instructive, some opaque -- to unexpected destinations. Undergirding the collection is a series of progressive vignettes entitled \"Victims of the Wedding,\" which follows the quarrels and couplings of a human man and woman as well as the angel and demon who observe them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkandalon\u003c\/i\u003e presents poems that consider the subtle, tragic, and ridiculous responses of creatures who lose themselves in a world they had wrongly imagined to be their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128891982064,"sku":"9780807157435","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807157435_p0.jpg?v=1763743464","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807157435","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}