{"product_id":"9781466880634","title":"The Singing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me\u003cbr\u003ethere's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world\u003cbr\u003eto us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself.\u003cbr\u003e--from \"The World\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his first volume since \u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity--the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events--with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years ago. He gazes at a Rembrandt self-portrait, and from it fashions a self-portrait of his own. He ponders an \"anatomical effigy\" at the Museum of Mankind, and in so doing \"dissects\" our common humanity. Stoking a fire at a house in the country, he recalls a friend who was burned horribly in war, and then turns, with eloquence and authority, to contemporary life during wartime, asking \"how those with power over us can effect these things, by what cynical reasoning do they pardon themselves.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/i\u003e is a direct and resonant book: touching, searching, heartfelt, permanent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180313002224,"sku":"9781466880634","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880634_p0.jpg?v=1769892026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}