{"product_id":"9781555979294","title":"Rapture: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause I can never say anything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e            plainly. Because I always stutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                        politely. Because there's always the chatter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                        before the kiss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e--from \"In Need of Subtitles\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life  born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving  during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are  told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering  one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and  family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our  lives as anything, please, but singular. \u003ci\u003eRapture\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128421105904,"sku":"9781555979294","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979294_p0.jpg?v=1763753781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}