{"product_id":"9781552452745","title":"For Display Purposes Only","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers' flights and turnings through the blizzard. This is a different world, and we live in it.\" —Paul Farley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eFor Display Purposes Only\u003c\/i\u003e is fighting trim, and poem after poem is a knockout blow.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are met at the front door of this book by an energized curiosity and a humane amusement. Worlds only notionally, minimally there become fully dimensioned, clearly edged under Seymour's attention. David Seymour is a magician.\"—Tim Lilburn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems pause for the spectacle—cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides—to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e 's first collection, \u003ci\u003eInter Alia\u003c\/i\u003e , was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. He works in the film industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035526971632,"sku":"9781552452745","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552452745_p0.jpg?v=1763753124","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552452745","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}