{"product_id":"9780996427555","title":"Second Nature","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"'Windows slam shut, like widows, or stones'—these poems carry a braid of unspoken stories. Visionary, honed, distilled, charged with the immediacy of a dream before you coax it into a story and the challenges of our baffling history, Patricia Carlin's poems remind me—entirely on their own terms—of the intimate 'you must change your life' urgency of the \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e. Carlin's lines ride on the breath, vulnerable to their own insight—'before this life we were together \/ and never now again'—and her eloquence has an edge of silence. SECOND NATURE is stunning work.\"—D. Nurkse\u003cp\u003e\"SECOND NATURE usually means a notion along the lines of 'instinctive,' and Patricia Carlin's poems always are prodigiously accomplished in this rare sense —casually (if not effortlessly) deft, smart, stylish, consummate, and winning. But, range a little farther, and SECOND NATURE also intimates another nature beyond our everyday rival pasts ('a life gone missing'), or alternate futures ('This is not the body I will die in'). SECOND NATURE is a brilliant, dauntless, and ensorcelling book.\"—Robert Polito\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As though we're never quite sure which identical twin we're meeting, the world in these poems is both 'known' and 'unknown,' a 'somewhere' and a 'nowhere.' SECOND NATURE is a book of deep retrospection and preparation, breathtaking in its scope and maturity.\"—Susan Wheeler\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marsh Hawk Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017881436400,"sku":"9780996427555","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996427555_p0.jpg?v=1763953515","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996427555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}