{"product_id":"9780822980230","title":"Best Bones","description":"\u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best Bones\u003c\/i\u003e is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garments—mother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into “a mansion steering itself.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eBest Bones\u003c\/i\u003e also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated.","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081099657456,"sku":"9780822980230","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822980230_p0.jpg?v=1763750294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822980230","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}