{"product_id":"9781619321502","title":"Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems [are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a fearless poet who, with characteristic humor and incisive irony, confronts the failings and wonder of nature, particularly the frail and resilient human body. This generous collection draws upon five previous volumes, including books selected as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\"100 Notable Books of the Year\" and as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Again, the Body\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you spend many hours alone in a room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eyou have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethis is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003edo not touch it, but who can keep from touching it,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom scratching off the juicy scab?...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151698018544,"sku":"9781619321502","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619321502_p0.jpg?v=1763855520","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619321502","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}