{"product_id":"9780998087276","title":"Watching Ourselves","description":"Watching Ourselves is a collection of poems gathered in groups: how we watch ourselves grow up, observe others, love, look back; how we watch ourselves come to grief, age, receive, and reflect.\u003cp\u003eWe watch ourselves, of course, with difficulty and incompleteness, tasking the poems to strive for a measure of clarity-however partial-as they, like us, struggle to know themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection title is not Watching Myself, for the poems are concerned with not only the poet but with a range-a complex-of people and circumstances. The title could as easily have been Watching Each Other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the poems are all written in free verse, their poetic approaches vary: couplets, tercets, quatrains, poems with slashes for punctuation, poems with slanted line lengths, short lyric poems, long narrative poems: whatever the poem itself seemed to call for, as each poem was begun because something happened that the poet didn't understand but needed to. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching Ourselves is a collection of poems addressing, and written out of, bewilderment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsolicited Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014259392752,"sku":"9780998087276","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780998087276_p0.jpg?v=1763943864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998087276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}