{"product_id":"9781400838233","title":"At Lake Scugog","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of \u003ci\u003eTom Thomson in Purgatory\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"snappy, entertaining book.\" A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut, \u003ci\u003eAt Lake Scugog\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates why the S\u003ci\u003ean Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e has called Troy Jollimore \"a new and exciting voice in American poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jollimore is a professional philosopher, and in witty and profound ways his formally playful poems dramatize philosophical subjects--especially the individual's relation to the larger world, and the permeable, constantly shifting border between \"inner\" and \"outer.\" For instance, the speaker of \"The Solipsist,\" suspecting that the entire world \"lives inside of your skull,\" wonders \"why \/ God would make ear and eye \/ to face \u003ci\u003eoutward\u003c\/i\u003e, not in.\" And Tom Thomson--a character who also appeared in Jollimore’s first book--finds himself journeying like an astronaut through the far reaches of the space that fills his head, an experience that prompts him to ask that a doorbell be installed \"on the \u003ci\u003einside\u003c\/i\u003e,\" so that he can warn the world before \"intruding on’t.\"\u003cbr\u003e______\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAt Lake Scugog\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLOBSTERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eTroy Jollimore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e tend to cluster in prime numbers, sub-\u003cbr\u003eoceanic bundles of bug consciousness\u003cbr\u003esubmerged in waking slumber, plunged in pits\u003cbr\u003eof murk-black water. They have coalesced\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e out of the pitch and grime and salt suspended\u003cbr\u003ewithin that atmospheric gloom. Their skin\u003cbr\u003eis colorless below. But when exposed\u003cbr\u003eto air, they start to radiate bright green,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e then, soon, a siren red that wails: \u003ci\u003eI’m dead\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe meat inside, though, is as white as teeth,\u003cbr\u003eor the hard-boiled egg that comes to mind\u003cbr\u003ewhen one cracks that crisp shell and digs beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Caress the toothy claw-edge of its pincer\u003cbr\u003eand you will know the single, simple thought\u003cbr\u003ethat populates its mind. The lobster trap is elegance\u003cbr\u003eitself: one moving part: the thing that’s caught.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140255629552,"sku":"9781400838233","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400838233_p0.jpg?v=1763712520","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400838233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}