{"product_id":"9780874218275","title":"About the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eTravis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: \"ask him to put into words what that sinking is, \/ that shudder in his chest, as he notices \/ the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth.\" But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, \"each of them, stuffed \/ into a body they didn't choose, resembled \/ your own plight.\" His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. \u003ci\u003eAbout the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his \"drift, and ride it like the billowed \/ end of some cockamamie parachute all the way \/ back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022438711536,"sku":"9780874218275","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780874218275_p0.jpg?v=1763852608","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780874218275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}