{"product_id":"9781466894778","title":"Conscious and Verbal: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything widens with distance, in this perspective.\u003cbr\u003eThe dog's paws, trotting, rotate his end of infinity\u003cbr\u003eand dam water feels a shiver few willow drapes share.\u003cbr\u003eBright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beans\u003cbr\u003ethen rapidly the light tops treetops and is shortened\u003cbr\u003einto a day. Everywhere stands pat beside its shadow\u003cbr\u003efor the great bald radiance never seen in dreams.\u003cbr\u003e                                                  -from \"Aurora Prone\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn July 1996, the Australian press reported that after three weeks in a coma, the country's greatest poet, Les Murray, was again \"conscious and verbal.\" Shortly thereafter, Murray resumed his work in words, and over the next four years he wrote these sixty-five poems, which, in their different ways, literally or sensually, replay that dreamy announcement of the perpetually waking world. \u003ci\u003eConscious and Verbal\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the legendary poet's richest, fullest, and most imaginative books to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171615097072,"sku":"9781466894778","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466894778_p0.jpg?v=1769892480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466894778","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}