{"product_id":"9780944048566","title":"Gapers' Delay","description":"Working in the tradition of populist modernism - what William Carlos Williams called \"the American Grain\" - I imagined poems as essays \"improvised\" along the principles of spontaneous composition (the \"variable foot,\" \"composition by field\"). As essays, they adhere to a multitude of popular expository genres: the oration, the rant, textual exegesis, the rap, the soliloquy and dialogue, the curse. Among contemporary writers, I drew inspiration in equal parts from Rae Armantrout, Amiri Baraka, Kamu Brathwaite, Bob Perelman and Robert Pinsky. I hope that this montage of styles and political orientations helps me to get at some of the precariousness of the present moment: an impossible rhythm with which Ornette Coleman helps me to make an honest peace.","brand":"Virtual Artists Collective","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090703126768,"sku":"9780944048566","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780944048566","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}