{"product_id":"9781440641978","title":"Flight: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom this critically acclaimed and award-winning poet, a stunning volume of new and selected works that display her signature intelligence, depth, and vigorous originality\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed as ?visionary? by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and ?radiant? by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Bierds returns with a collection that gives us the best of her astonishing work, and then gives us more: the gift of fifteen new poems. As a poet, she has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity? art, science, music, history, and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. The new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from medieval to modern-day Venice to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism? returning always to the empathy that guides her work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds's singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, ?The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.?","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157726347504,"sku":"9781440641978","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440641978_p0.jpg?v=1763786457","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440641978","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}