{"product_id":"9781610756327","title":"Ya Te Veo: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYa Te Veo\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its title the name of a mythical tree that eats people. Like the branches of that tree, the poems in this book seem to capture and nourish themselves on a diverse cast of would-be passers-by, drawing their life-force from the resulting synthesis of characters. Among the seized are poets and painters alongside musicians from Garth Brooks to Wu-Tang Clan to the composer Morton Feldman, whose mysterious personality serves as a backdrop in many poems for meditations on intimacy, ethics, and anxiety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the phrase “ya te veo” (“I see you”) implies, this is a book interested in revealing what we think is hidden, in questioning the gap inside all of us, a gap between what we feel and what we say and do, making space for our many contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike the works of Feldman, these poems focus and recede, experimenting with form in order to accomplish a state of deep concentration. They impersonate sonnets, ghazals, terza rima, monologues, translations, and freestyles, but inexactly, embracing failed imitation as an opportunity to remix the familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162848051440,"sku":"9781610756327","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610756327_p0.jpg?v=1763844961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610756327","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}