{"product_id":"9781466882140","title":"Music and Suicide: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlower on, happy paperwhite\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you bloom you're gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhen you wilt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\"Drugs\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Clark's first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Door Slides Back\u003c\/i\u003e, was hailed as an unclassifiable classic in underground American writing: \"Remarkable for its liveliness and intelligence\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \"Amazing and ambitious\" (\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e), \"a 120-page spell\" (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Letters\u0026amp;Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e), \"A happy sadomasochism, a luxuriance of prurience\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \"Devoted to the idea of possibility in the poet who operates as free agent, looking to the weather not for the springs of dailiness but for some message from the aether\" (\u003ci\u003eArras\u003c\/i\u003e), \"[Clark's work] creates . . . our own precursors, precursors who behave differently than our supposed avant-garde\" (\u003ci\u003eRhizome\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMusic and Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e Clark is no longer underground. He moves away from the sinisterism and mask-ridden black humor of his debut, toward new realms of clarity, dissent, and sex. Neither a traditionalist nor an experimentalist-if being one means not being the other-Clark once again is engaged in radically beautiful poem-making, but, as Guy Kyser states, \"Something affected him down in the desert.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144007401712,"sku":"9781466882140","price":7.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466882140_p0.jpg?v=1769892038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466882140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}