{"product_id":"9781556594939","title":"Patient Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I will call the voice of this poet a ‘common’ voice… a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.” —Philip Levine, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomás Q. Morín explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. \u003ci\u003ePatient Zero\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with voices—of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Patient Zero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLove is a worried, old heart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003edisease\u003c\/i\u003e , as Son House once put it, the very stuff blues are made of, real blues\u003cbr\u003e that consist of a male and female, not monkey junk\u003cbr\u003elike the “Okra blues” or “Pay Day blues,”\u003cbr\u003ethough I think House would agree\u003cbr\u003etwo hearts of any persuasion are enough for a real blues,\u003cbr\u003eif one of them is sick, that sickly green of a frog\u003cbr\u003ebitten in two by the neighbor’s dog, all of which\u003cbr\u003emakes me wonder about the source of our disease\u003cbr\u003eand whose teeth first tore the heart after Adam\u003cbr\u003eand Eve left the garden?...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomás Q. Morín's debut poetry collection \u003ci\u003eA Larger Country\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the APR\/Honickman Prize. He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology \u003ci\u003eComing Close,\u003c\/i\u003e and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Heights of Macchu Picchu\u003c\/i\u003e by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060306329840,"sku":"9781556594939","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594939_p0.jpg?v=1763755971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}