{"product_id":"9780933087675","title":"Two Midwest Voices: Mirror Lake by Jerry Roscoe and the Weather in Athens by Robert Demott","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"Jerry Roscoe is a poet of the American commonplace. I wanted to say - full of 'generic pleasures' (his words) about those old neighborhoods, the last haircut from Louie and the women who traveled too quickly by - but his framework is a setup, a carefully crafted fuse that burns toward unsettling surprises. MIRROR LAKE launched me into a place that I almost forgot to remember and be thankful for. Read and enjoy; you'll know yourself better for it\" - George Myers Jr. \"Bob DeMott's poems achieve what is to me one of the most important accomplishments any poet can offer. Their style, which is straightforward and conversational -- with figurative language gracefully and humbly eased in - is almost always transparent: We are invited to read through the screen of the words into the poem without being dragged back to the surface of the page by stylistic and graphic peculiarities. This is a reader's poetry, inviting, heartfelt, generous and moving\" - Ted Kooser.","brand":"Bottom Dog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033660047600,"sku":"9780933087675","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780933087675_p0.jpg?v=1763876650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780933087675","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}