{"product_id":"9781550652819","title":"Sympathy for the Couriers","description":"Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives—that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his most ventriloquistic. The “couriers” in question are the banged-up, long-suffering, Dantesque voices who, speaking through the poet, deliver their news: heartfelt, often heartbreaking admissions that, nonetheless, are always buoyant with aphoristic brio and panache. But the most important messenger here is Richardson himself, who having establishing a reputation as one of Canada’s best poets, has given us his most challenging book.","brand":"Véhicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128409932016,"sku":"9781550652819","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550652819_p0.jpg?v=1763751913","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550652819","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}