{"product_id":"9781556593802","title":"Nitro Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Di Piero's poems throb with the intensity of urban life, buried anger, and old griefs that still ache.\"— \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Di Piero hopes to evoke something of the true mystery of present and recalled experience, and his poems powerfully enact this desire.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.S. Di Piero marries a streetwise, working-class sensibility to an intellectual rigor and precise language in poems that stare down depression, failed love, and urban nightlife. In a fast-paced, half-cracked\/half-sane style reminiscent of bebop solos, Di Piero forges masterful poems that \"keep it close, loose, and sweaty,\" and restore life's intensity while showing where real hope might be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Only in Things\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSome days, who can stare at swathes of sky,\u003cbr\u003eleafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets,\u003cbr\u003etailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust,\u003cbr\u003eor the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key,\u003cbr\u003eand not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks,\u003cbr\u003ehow its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings,\u003cbr\u003eor how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors\u003cbr\u003eweave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eW.S. Di Piero\u003c\/b\u003e was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in an Italian working-class neighborhood. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Raiziss\/de Palchi Book Prize for Italian translation, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund award. He lives in San Francisco, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056677830896,"sku":"9781556593802","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593802_p0.jpg?v=1763755300","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593802","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}