{"product_id":"9781574413090","title":"Circles Where the Head Should Be","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eCircles Where the Head Should Be\u003c\/i\u003e are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps.\u003cbr\u003e Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one another in ways that instruct and delight. An irresistible book.”—J. D. McClatchy, author of \u003ci\u003eMercury Dressing: Poems, \u003c\/i\u003ejudge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStorm and Stress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat a spider web supports a bead of rain\u003cbr\u003e is as significant\u003cbr\u003e as rain’s resolve, poised where some spinneret\u003cbr\u003e has pitched its threads aslant,\u003cbr\u003e since, held or holding, each endures a strain—\u003cbr\u003e one presses, one reacts.\u003cbr\u003e Don’t ask me what it’s worth. Despite the facts\u003cbr\u003e of matter’s favored states,\u003cbr\u003e such concentration’s of no consequence\u003cbr\u003e beyond this life, a net\u003cbr\u003e tailored to break, too late for recompense\u003cbr\u003e when weight evaporates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060512080112,"sku":"9781574413090","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574413090_p0.jpg?v=1763798041","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574413090","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}