{"product_id":"9781466877436","title":"Scar Tissue: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eHard to imagine that no one counts,\u003cbr\u003ethat only things endure.\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the seasons, our shirts don't shed,\u003cbr\u003eWhatever we see does not see us,\u003cbr\u003ehowever hard we look,\u003cbr\u003eThe rain in its silver earrings against the oak trunks,\u003cbr\u003eThe rain in its second skin.\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Scar Tissue II\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--\"thing is not an image\"--but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject--language and \"the ghost of god.\" And in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, \"something un-ordinary persists.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScar Tissue\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking work from a poet who \"illuminates and exalts the entire astonishing spectrum of existence\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174465093872,"sku":"9781466877436","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466877436_p0.jpg?v=1769892101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466877436","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}