{"product_id":"9781587299414","title":"On Tact, \u0026 the Made Up World","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichele Glazer’s poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e is, but \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e it is. The poems trouble borders\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ebetween self and other, old and young, sick and well, stranger and intimate; between physical states in processes of decay; and between line and phrase, sentence and interruption, prose and poem\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e resisting the desire for something irrefutable with an abiding skepticism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e      The poems are drawn to missteps in perception and in language, those fractures that promise to crack open a surface to yield some other, greater meaning:  “What is looked at is changed \/ what is looked for is gone.” From this collision of passion and severity come poems that are strange and darkly beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176897757424,"sku":"9781587299414","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587299414_p0.jpg?v=1763800283","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587299414","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}