{"product_id":"9781566892582","title":"Testify","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I regard Lease as the best poet of his generation. This is a poetry filled with stories that are built to last. This is a poet who will become a major voice in American poetry.\"—David Shapiro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith singular grace and musicality, these accomplished poems summon the voices of a divided country. With a storyteller’s rhythm, Lease braids humor, political bite, psychological intensity, and lyric beauty, taking us to a place of warning, critique, and elegy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoseph Lease\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eBroken World\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe Room\u003c\/i\u003e . His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in \u003ci\u003eBay Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eVQR\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e , and elsewhere. Lease's poem \"'Broken World' (For James Assatly)\" appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e , edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060319633648,"sku":"9781566892582","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566892582_p0.jpg?v=1763789646","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566892582","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}