{"product_id":"9781556594908","title":"Incorrect Merciful Impulses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A poet to watch.\"—\u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I tell the truth, but I try to be kind about it.\"—Camille Rankine in \u003ci\u003e12 Questions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed \"a poet to watch\" by \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of doubt and identity. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including \"still lifes,\" \"instructions,\" and \"symptoms.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Symptoms of Aftermath\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e…When I am saved, a slim nurse\u003cbr\u003eleans out of the white light. I need\u003cbr\u003eto hear your voice, sweetheart. I see\u003cbr\u003emy escape. I walk into the water.\u003cbr\u003eThe sky is blue like the ocean,\u003cbr\u003ewhich is blue like the sky.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamille Rankine \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eSlow Dance with Trip Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 \"Discovery\" \/ Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Denver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Currently, she is assistant director of the MFA program in creative writing at Manhattanville College and lives in Harlem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057216307440,"sku":"9781556594908","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594908_p0.jpg?v=1769899248","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594908","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}