{"product_id":"9781555977085","title":"Selfish: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If Goldbarth belongs to a school, he is surely its sole member. He's simply . . . one of our most generous working poets.\" —\u003ci\u003eRumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd you\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eperhaps don't like this poem: its free verse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eor its narrative or the way it uses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003egender or the heavy-handed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eword-play of its title.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike I care.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI wrote this for me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e —from \"‘Try the Selfish'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth explores all things \"self-ish\": the origins of identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awareness, and the line between \"self\" and \"other.\" Whether one line long or ten pages, whether uproariously comic or steeped in gravitas, these are poems that address our human essence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060302954736,"sku":"9781555977085","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555977085_p0.jpg?v=1763755659","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555977085","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}