{"product_id":"9781884800955","title":"What the Right Hand Knows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRunner-up for the Lambda Finalist in Poetry (2009)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealy’s sensual, urgent debut collection moves from farmyard to cityscape as it depicts a teetering, asymmetric world. A speaker “deaf in one ear” ponders that “the Moon’s dark side \/ has no sound”; a mother and child finally “take the journey they’d talked about” but get only “a Sunday drive on Tuesday,” a near-miss “tracing circumferences.” Healy’s assured rhythms and measured stresses ballast the uncertainty of social relationships and bodily suffering. He seeks past the self for ways to act: “the task is to remember \/ the troubled blood of others, \/\/ and not remember \/\/ the bliss of deeper waters.” This book of “salt and work,” of surviving ourselves, our illnesses, and our language, tenderly explores the unsaid and under-the-surface of the separate lives we live together: “we sat \/\/ in the rocking chairs \/ of each other’s \/ moods.” An intimate, intelligent, and lively debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039012733168,"sku":"9781884800955","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781884800955_p0.jpg?v=1763605397","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781884800955","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}