{"product_id":"9781555976033","title":"Everyday People: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe not-at-all-everyday new poetry collection by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e I brought a book of many words \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eto an emptiness in my heart, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand I shook them out in there, to fill it. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn my time I wrote this very thing. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn your time you read it. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e—from \"What We Were Like\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new collection that describes the wonders of everyday people—overprotective parents, online gamblers, newlyweds, Hercules, and Jesus. In Goldbarth's poetry—expansive, wild, and hilarious—he argues that our ordinary failures, heroics, joy, and grief are worth giving voice to, giving thanks for. \u003ci\u003eEveryday People \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary new book by a poet who \"in thirty-five years of writing has amassed a body of work as substantial and intelligent as that of anyone in his generation\" (William Doreski, \u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061550924016,"sku":"9781555976033","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555976033_p0.jpg?v=1763753605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555976033","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}