{"product_id":"9781555975739","title":"Otherwise Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe expansive, energetic new poetry book by David Rivard, author of \u003ci\u003eSugartown \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWise Poison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou pay as you go. Mornings \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eat this point are either like spread sails or (more likely) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003espread-sheets—they fill fast. Mornings are fortunes, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut as suspect as a wristwatch running in reverse. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e —from \"Vigorish\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDavid Rivard's new collection \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Elsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e describes the many powers—psychological and historical—that flow through people's lives in acts of faith, greed, pleasure, celebrity, gossip, and consolation. A teenage boy looking at a weathered gravestone wonders how many times he'll sign his name in his life; the forest on the move in \u003ci\u003eMacbeth \u003c\/i\u003eintersects with a blind man cured by Christ; a man coming out of a terrible dream of being lost is saved by touching his wife's hair. \"For those of us who need it,\" one poem asserts, \"instruction is everywhere.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRivard's poetry is full of unsettling humor and the careening movement of memory and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040297369840,"sku":"9781555975739","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555975739_p0.jpg?v=1763755289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555975739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}