{"product_id":"9781555976132","title":"Pity the Beautiful: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO Lord of indirection and ellipses,\u003cbr\u003eignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.\u003cbr\u003eSlow our heartbeat to a cricket's call.\u003cbr\u003e --from \"Prophecy\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePity the Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is Dana Gioia's first new poetry book in over a decade. Its emotional revelations and careful construction are hard won, inventive, and resilient. These new poems show Gioia's craftsmanship at its finest, its most mature, as they make music, crack wise, remember the dead, and in a long, central poem even tell ghost stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050363175152,"sku":"9781555976132","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555976132_p0.jpg?v=1763754798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555976132","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}