{"product_id":"9781619321045","title":"Is Music: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George Oppen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs Music\u003c\/i\u003e—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer breathtaking compositions regarded as underground masterpieces. There is a prayerful quality to Taggart’s poetry, rooted in music—from medieval Christian traditions and soul to American punk rock. He is also heavily influenced by the visual arts, most notably in his classic “Slow Song for Mark Rothko,” in which he did with words what Rothko did with paint and dye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo breathe and stretch one’s arms again\u003cbr\u003eto breathe through the mouth to breathe to\u003cbr\u003ebreathe through the mouth to utter in\u003cbr\u003ethe most quiet way not to whisper not to whisper\u003cbr\u003eto breathe through the mouth in the most quiet way to\u003cbr\u003ebreathe to sing to breathe to sing to breathe\u003cbr\u003eto sing the most quiet way.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo sing to light the most quiet light in darkness\u003cbr\u003eradiantia radiantia\u003cbr\u003esinging light in darkness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo sing as the host sings in his house.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Taggart\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books of poetry and two books of criticism. He was, for many years, a professor of English and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. He lives near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151748219120,"sku":"9781619321045","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619321045_p0.jpg?v=1763856589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619321045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}