{"product_id":"9780995684300","title":"Phantom Laundry: Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Tyrell poems have appeared in many publications, including \u003cem\u003eAgni, The Best American Poetry 2015\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e The Iowa Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Verse Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Yale Review. \u003c\/em\u003e His first collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Wanted\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 2012 from the National Poetry Review Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhantom Laundry is his second poetry collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wet and cold my country, where the softener seeps in but the powder burns still in washing tone.” Through prose poems, found-verse collages, fractured short stories, and micro-fictions, Michael Tyrell’s \u003cem\u003ePhantom Laundry \u003c\/em\u003ereveals an America caught in a ferocious cycle—fixed on apocalyptic omens and numbed by reruns and reality TV, but still inexorably drawn to the possibility of redemption and recovered purity: “Clean now, never been so clean. God died a useful thing.” Running the gamut between fairy-tale characters and infamous killers, Hollywood icons and urban legends, \u003cem\u003ePhantom Laundry \u003c\/em\u003ealso considers how the seemingly ordinary, apparently desolate life might be momentarily renewed thanks to the playful miracles of language: “What tenderness in smoothing over the delicacies, overalls and overnothing arguments.” With this, his second collection, Tyrell continues to make a name for himself as a strikingly original poet whose work blends comic word-play with haunting gravitas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Backlash Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023448555760,"sku":"9780995684300","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780995684300_p0.jpg?v=1763899329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780995684300","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}