{"product_id":"9781550718706","title":"The Other Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough written during the past fifteen years, this collection spans over forty years in the poet's life, referencing a variety of cultural situations and emotional dimensions that carve a complex and uneven itinerary. From reflections on returning many times to his native town in Southern Italy, to political paradoxes that dot his intellectual growth in America, to thought-filled flights of the imagination, to existential questions about the motivations behind certain actions, the author constantly tempts the limit of his, and our, sensibility when confronted with a host of often inexplicable situations. The search through these \"lives\" calls for the employ of various registers and styles, from minimalism to a long prosaic line, while the lexicon accepts the colloquial and the refined. The collection slowly evolves toward a disenchanted horizon which requires the author often to retrieve mythological symbols. Finally, in the last section, he invents his own character to rehabilitate the civic poem through a blatantly political scouring of our most recent social reality\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guernica Editions, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096579674352,"sku":"9781550718706","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550718706","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}