{"product_id":"9780809390199","title":"Misery Prefigured","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. \u003ci\u003eMisery Prefigured\u003c\/i\u003e dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world and the restless dynamic that vibrates between them.Whether contemplating a failed marriage, a visit from God, or a pearl dropped into a bottle of Prell shampoo, Rosser's wry yet impassioned eye looks hard for a habitable and abiding truth.  Alternating between deadpan and dead serious, these poems are often darkly funny, exposing the contradictions inherent in every desire. \u003ci\u003eMisery Prefigured\u003c\/i\u003e is fueled by a cocky, unsentimental determination to make some consolatory sense of what passes for reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118566359280,"sku":"9780809390199","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809390199_p0.jpg?v=1763739942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809390199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}