{"product_id":"9781466877450","title":"A Short History of the Shadow: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuminous new poems from the author of \"\u003ci\u003eThe Appalachian Book of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't just do something, sit there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so I have, so I have, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe seasons curling around me like smoke,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone to the end of the earth and back without a sound. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\"Body and Soul II\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the completion of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, the trilogy of trilogies hailed as one \"among the great long poems of the century\" (James Longenbach, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Wright speaks in these poems with characteristic charm, restlessness, and wit, writing again and again, \"I sit where I always sit,\" only to reveal himself in a new setting every time. In \u003ci\u003eA Short History of the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157914435824,"sku":"9781466877450","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466877450_p0.jpg?v=1769891947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466877450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}