{"product_id":"9780997172584","title":"Penetralia: Poems","description":"A new book of poems after the release last year of his monumental collected poetry collection: The Essential Poems (1960-2015). \u003cbr\u003eThe world embraced by Eshleman’s poetry is our world. As a contemporary writer, Eshleman’s history is our own: his writing a record and reflection of our times. Eshleman’s story — the story revealed in his poetry — is the story of mid-America meeting the wider world; the story of social and political radicalism, of a counterculture raising a voice in poetry and in art; of the challenges, frustrations and anomie that befell that counterculture and of the continued and indeed on-going drama of empire and overreaching power, from Vietnam and El Salvador to Afghanistan and Iraq. Eshleman’s life in letters has exemplified a commitment to ceaseless, wide-ranging exploration and encounter: with other places, other people, other poetries — foreign and familiar —, other modes of thought and image. As he has written of his work: “I dream of poems that could change something essential \/ about the way a few people view creation…”","brand":"Commonwealth Books, Black Widow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036182954224,"sku":"9780997172584","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780997172584_p0.jpg?v=1769914972","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997172584","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}