{"product_id":"9781567925319","title":"Testimony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eA major work by an essential American poet, published in full for the first time.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e Available again for the first time since 1978—and complete in one volume for the first time ever—Charles Reznikoff's Testimony is a lost masterpiece, a legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's \"A\" and William Carlos Williams's Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Reznikoff's book sets forth a stark panorama of late-19th and early 20th-century America—the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease—in a radically stripped-down language of almost unbearable intensity. This edition also includes Reznikoff 's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the 1930s, and a new introduction by essayist Eliot Weinberger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Godine, David R. Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063661445360,"sku":"9781567925319","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781567925319_p0.jpg?v=1763765558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781567925319","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}