{"product_id":"9781466871724","title":"Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a city like that one might sail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ethrough life led by a runaway hat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe young scattered in whatever directions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003etheir wild hair pointed and, gusting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003einto one another, they fell in love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e                                                                   --from \"Windy City\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enactment of place, these poems map the internal geographies of characters who inhabit severe and often savage city streets, finding there a tension that transfigures past and present, memory and fantasy, sin and sanctity, nostalgia and the need to forget. Full of music and ecstasy, the poems of \u003ci\u003eStreets in Their Own Ink \u003c\/i\u003econsecrate a shadowed, alternate city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of hard realities. Throughout, one finds poetry enlivened by Dybek's signature talent for translating \"extreme and fantastic events into a fabulous dailiness, as though the extraordinary were everywhere around us if only someone would tell us where to look\" (Geoffrey Wolff).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129338085616,"sku":"9781466871724","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466871724_p0.jpg?v=1769891846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466871724","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}