{"product_id":"9780819563903","title":"It Is If I Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies \"It is if I speak that I will be destroyed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic — and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, \"Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses.\" His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, \"owing is all that really happens,\" and lives are shaped by the refusal to \"sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007998116080,"sku":"9780819563903","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780819563903_p0.jpg?v=1763742490","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780819563903","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}