{"product_id":"9781555976323","title":"It Becomes You: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Corresponder\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eBeliever \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry Award *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the backs of the books I love and am terrified by,\u003cbr\u003ethe great thinkers stare back at me with little encouragement.\u003cbr\u003eI am prepared to follow them anywhere!\u003cbr\u003e —from \"Ago\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson's \u003ci\u003eIt Becomes You\u003c\/i\u003e explore the divergent conditions by which we're perpetually defined—the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061550989552,"sku":"9781555976323","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555976323_p0.jpg?v=1763753613","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555976323","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}