{"product_id":"9781556595073","title":"Early Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It's [McGriff's] language that keeps you reading along, transfixed.\"— \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor.\" — \u003ci\u003eThird Coast\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McGriff's vivid grit remains hard to gainsay.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book-length sequence inspired by the Nazi-persecuted German Expressionist painter Karl Hofer's work, McGriff's third collection meditates on eros, cosmology, independence, provenance, \"occupied territories,\" and deviance. Detailed yet indeterminately American landscapes flood with surrealist dream imagery and subtle violence, while the voice of these poems intertwines between the intimately personal and the honestly imagined—all while remaining plainspoken, angular, direct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Cosmology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe river moves beneath the sheet ice.\u003cbr\u003eThe wind is a grand hall of records.\u003cbr\u003eIn the recipe box above the refrigerator,\u003cbr\u003ethe deathbed photos of four generations—\u003cbr\u003esomewhere, their hands have turned to prime numbers...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael McGriff\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books of poetry and an acclaimed collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eOur Secret Life in the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e . His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Poetry, Bookforum, The Believer, Tin House, American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e , and on NPR's \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e and PBS \u003ci\u003eNewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e . He is currently teaching at the University of Idaho.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055151464688,"sku":"9781556595073","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556595073_p0.jpg?v=1763754139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556595073","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}