{"product_id":"9781566892216","title":"The Cosmopolitan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Poetry Series winner, chosen by John Yau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems spin tales of traveling in a world both romantic and politicized, a world miniaturized by globalization and haunted by the figure of the cosmopolitan, who is aware of its saturated history, yet inspired by the knowledge that nostalgia is merely “memory decayed to sugar.” In the kingdom of Donna Stonecipher’s imagination, “a story is always forming to adorn reality,” and the fall of the Eastern bloc is reenacted the night “the girl with the DDR bag met the boy with the CCCP T-shirt.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna Stonecipher \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reservoir \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSouvenir de Constantinople\u003c\/i\u003e. She grew up in Seattle and Tehran and makes her home both here and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050298982640,"sku":"9781566892216","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566892216_p0.jpg?v=1763788358","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566892216","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}