{"product_id":"9781682260074","title":"You Are Here: Poems New \u0026 Old","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinnowed from a distinguished career, then distilled, then polished and winnowed again, the poems in \u003ci\u003eYou Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e are Leon Stokesbury’s best from fifty years of published work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selections from his earlier volumes are as fully realized as one would expect from the winner of the AWP Poetry Competition and the Poets’ Prize. But it is in Stokesbury’s new work, collected under the heading “These Days,” that he reveals something completely different. From a carnival sideshow to Hitchcock’s Mount Rushmore, from John Keats’s backyard to the miseries of a failed crematorium operator, every turned page divulges a particular we didn’t see coming. You Are Here is like a sideshow of this modern world, even when we discover, amazed, our selves looking back at us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why do we still only stand here?” Stokesbury asks in one of his earliest salvos. The poems in this collection give such varied answers that readers will have no idea what the next page holds, only that they will find themselves somewhere new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061993423088,"sku":"9781682260074","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781682260074_p0.jpg?v=1763696368","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781682260074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}