{"product_id":"9781556591945","title":"Steal Away: Selected and New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, \u003ci\u003eSteal Away \u003c\/i\u003e presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new \"retablos\" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright—with her Southern accent and cinematic eye—couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that \"offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003efrom \"Our Dust\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou didn’t know my weariness, error, incapacity,\u003cbr\u003eI was the poet of shadow work and towns with quarter-inch phone books, of failed roadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and sharpening shops,\u003cbr\u003ejobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline factory on the penitentiary road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright shrinks back from nothing.\"— \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire.\"— \u003ci\u003eAmerican Letters\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright \u003c\/b\u003e has published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050361536752,"sku":"9781556591945","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556591945_p0.jpg?v=1769899293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556591945","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}