{"product_id":"9781554811045","title":"Personals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, \u003cb\u003ePersonals\u003c\/b\u003e is voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets, and creates forms of his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don’t end. With a deft hand and playful ear, Williams entices the reader to stumble alongside his characters as they search, again and again, for intimacy, for love, for each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Freehand Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096595927280,"sku":"9781554811045","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554811045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}