{"product_id":"9781848614826","title":"Strange Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eFascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A.—its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes\/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eStrange Country\u003c\/em\u003e Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of ‘the traffic of fear’, and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of \u003cem\u003eStrange Country \u003c\/em\u003ebegins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What sustains that accomplishment is a poet’s attention to a ‘wide-open polyphony’ equal to the multiple realities of its subject.\" — Kelvin Corcoran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055805415664,"sku":"9781848614826","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848614826_p0.jpg?v=1763751215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848614826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}