{"product_id":"9780991336111","title":"The Truth Is We Are Perfect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Stucky's verse has the power of the best East European poets—some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker.\"—Bill Knott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The yearning in these poems is awash in dense, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mishandling of promises and breakable bonds.\"—\u003ci\u003eapt \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Truth Is We Are Perfect\u003c\/i\u003e contains fifty-four lyrics exploring the loss of oneself through the loss of an other, and how we seek to recreate ourselves in that absence. Stucky journeys into nothingness and, consequently, into awareness. His meditative sensibilities and minimalist style create ritualized poems acting as spells—transcribed to be read aloud and performed in the service of realizing that which we seek to become: \"Because I love a burning thing \/ I made my heart a field of fire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanaka Stucky \u003c\/b\u003eis the publisher of \u003ci\u003eBlack Ocean \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the annual poetry journal \u003ci\u003eHandsome\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of two chapbooks: \u003ci\u003eYour Name Is The Only Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe World Will Deny It For You\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Fence \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e North American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and his articles have been published by the \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted \"Boston's Best Poet\" in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035983167728,"sku":"9780991336111","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780991336111_p0.jpg?v=1763890562","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780991336111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}