{"product_id":"9781555975012","title":"Colosseum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems \"possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you respect the dead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eand recall where they died\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eby this time tomorrow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ethere will be nowhere to walk.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\"Earth\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith gravity and resplendence, \u003ci\u003eColosseum\u003c\/i\u003e confronts ruin in the ancient world and in the living moment, from historical accounts and from firsthand experience. Displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Katie Ford returns this powerful report attesting to the storm's ferocity and its aftershock. Ford examines other catastrophes—those biblical, obscured by time, and those that play out daily, irrefutably, in the media. \u003ci\u003eColosseum\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential, moving book in its insistence that our fates are intertwined and that devastation does not discriminate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061524152560,"sku":"9781555975012","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555975012_p0.jpg?v=1763754767","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555975012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}