{"product_id":"9781448156740","title":"Sanctuary","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this, Matthew Sweeney's eighth full-length collection, the disarming fabulist and mythmaker steps out on his own into fresh territory. These are poems from a mapless journey through the backwaters of Europe and the New World - imbued, as always, with the strange, unerring logic of dream, but carrying now a new, fugitive, lyrical note. The sanctuary of the title is fragile and hard-won, and the complexities of the emotional life are written into the architecture of the physical, making for a poetry that is both vulnerable and disturbing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated for his ability to blend the simple terror of folklore with the more sophisticated anxieties of Kafka and the contemporary, Sweeney moves through this book like a revenant - past monkeys dressed as doormen, through ice-hotels and showers of human hair, towards a scaffold or a lover. Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems - unsettled and unsettling, and very far from home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128324112624,"sku":"9781448156740","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448156740_p0.jpg?v=1763828139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448156740","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}