{"product_id":"9780982441664","title":"Dirt Sandwich","description":"Linda Annas Ferguson knows-to borrow Wallace Stevens' formulation-that \"Death is the mother of beauty.\" She proclaims in one of her poems, \"Everything \/ is drenched with endings, alive with dying.\" Her work exists at the shimmering mid-point between an urge to celebrate the world's beauty and a pained recognition that this beauty is mutable. She recognizes that our being only temporary inhabitants of this life is not a problem to solve but a mystery to feel-and a mystery that compels us to make poems. As she wryly puts it, she is \"dying to write \/ a decent poem.\" Linda Annas Ferguson has done more than that. She has given us a book of tender, clear-eyed, complex meditations, a lovely book by a poet whose vision we can trust. - Chris Forhan, author of Black Leapt In","brand":"Press 53","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013684314352,"sku":"9780982441664","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982441664_p0.jpg?v=1763886069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982441664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}