{"product_id":"9781466880672","title":"Wideawake Field: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chairs have come in \u003cbr\u003eand the crisp yellow thwock \u003cbr\u003eof the ball being hit \u003cbr\u003esays somehow, now that it's fall, \u003cbr\u003eI'm a memory of myself. \u003cbr\u003eMy whole old life—\u003cbr\u003eI mourn you sometimes \u003cbr\u003ein places you would have been\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                     \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. As a reporter's dispatches, they concern themselves with different forms of desolation: what it means to feel at home in wrecked places and then to experience loneliness and dislocation in the familiar. The collection arcs between internal and external worlds—the disappointment of returning, the guilt and thrill of departure, unexpected encounters in blighted places— and, with ruthless observations etched in the sparest lines, the poems in \u003ci\u003eWideawake Field \u003c\/i\u003esharply and movingly navigate the poles of home and away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157989998832,"sku":"9781466880672","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880672_p0.jpg?v=1769892051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880672","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}