{"product_id":"9781556593123","title":"See Me Improving","description":"\u003cp\u003eTravis Nichols is a young poet and novelist who invites readers into a world of relationships gone strange. In his poems, everyday human behaviors become fraught with extraordinary significance. It's a delicate balance of orchestration and improvisation—both dizzying and oddly comforting. The poems, thick with vibrant language and semantic play, hint at a Rimbaudian derangement of the senses while being hyper-alert and completely alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAll my life I've felt destined\u003cbr\u003enot for the greatness of my heroes\u003cbr\u003ebut the goodness of their followers.\u003cbr\u003eI knew, even when I found a piece\u003cbr\u003eof tooth in my Sausage McMuffin,\u003cbr\u003eI would surmount the poverty\u003cbr\u003eand dullness of my youth.\u003cbr\u003eI knew neither my poverty nor my youth\u003cbr\u003ewould be significant enough\u003cbr\u003eto attract attention,\u003cbr\u003eonly simple enough\u003cbr\u003eto graft onto the great biographies.\u003cbr\u003eEven when I felt uncommon and angry enough\u003cbr\u003eto steal balloons from the drug store\u003cbr\u003eand spit red paintballs through a peashooter\u003cbr\u003eat people making out in the park I knew\u003cbr\u003eI was no Billy the Kid . . .\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eTravis Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIowa\u003c\/i\u003e , a collection of poems, and \u003ci\u003eOff We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e (Coffee House Press), a novel. He edits the online magazine Weird Deer and regularly contributes to \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e . He lives in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060137083120,"sku":"9781556593123","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593123_p0.jpg?v=1763754092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593123","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}