{"product_id":"9781619320628","title":"Winter's Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[Dobyns’ poetry] has a somber, eccentric beauty not quite like anything else around these days.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Dobyns] blends philosophical musings with daft, deft metaphors and a cheeky vernacular.”—\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and best-selling novelist Stephen Dobyns employs everything from Atlantic seascapes to werewolf dreams to explore issues public and private. By turns tough and tender, Dobyns’ plainspoken poems create and reflect a worldview full of possibilities. He contrasts the quotidian with the exalted, always delivered in a precise, familiar voice. Daily walks become meditations on politics, philosophy, literature, and the larger considerations of existence and being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Dobyns\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twenty-one books of fiction, including the popular Saratoga crime series, twelve books of poetry, and a collection of nonfiction. Dobyns has worked as a reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/i\u003e and has taught at the University of Iowa, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College, Syracuse University, and Boston University. He lives in Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151747596528,"sku":"9781619320628","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619320628_p0.jpg?v=1763856370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619320628","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}