{"product_id":"9781599540122","title":"Heart Murmur","description":"BORDIGHERA POETRY PRIZE • 11\u003cbr\u003esponsored by\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOnIA RAIZISS-GIOP CHARITABlE FOunDATIOn\u003cbr\u003eThe poems of Heart Murmur are richly talky and utterly authentic, one moment wry and self-deprecating and the next astonishingly open-hearted.    I honor this book for its celebration of our foolish hopes, our crazed and enlivening appetites.\u003cbr\u003e- Nancy Eimers\u003cbr\u003eHeart Murmer is an electric storm of language running a gauntlet of feeling from grief to gallows humor that left me astonished. Steffen burns the solipsistic personal at the stake. - Roger Weingarten\u003cbr\u003eSteffen scrupulously avoids flamboyance, the sort of surface dazzle we find in poems that, like the stereotypical Chinese meal, are immediately appealing but leave us hungry instants later. His plain style approach allows his insights, as it were, to sneak up on us . . . until we discover ourselves (how did it happen?) in a world so full of pathos that we catch our breaths. - Sydney Lea","brand":"Bordighera Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031202906352,"sku":"9781599540122","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781599540122_p0.jpg?v=1763812155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781599540122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}