{"product_id":"9781891190377","title":"The Coffin Nail Blues","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. Music. THE COFFIN NAIL BLUES is Ted Pearson's latest work, comprising sixty-four poems in eight movements. In these poems, the spirit of the blues suffuses a formally concise blend of epigram and epitaph, verse and prose, to produce \"a time-lapse view of inexistence.\" Although these poems are dark, they navigate the darkness with a deftness of touch, a musical takt, that embraces the dark without succumbing to it. As he writes of the tango, which could also be a totentanz, \"El abrazo es más importante que el paso\" (the embrace is more important than the steps). In this work, libidinal and political economies cross paths—\"The border guards look like wallflowers. \/ Someone should ask them to dance\"—as do the living and the dead—\"Haunted less by the few words I find \/ than the fate of those who left them behind.\" Implicit here is a living tradition in which words survive their makers to the benefit of those who come after. THE COFFIN NAIL BLUES is a substantial addition to a body of work that spans fifty years.","brand":"Atelos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49814435004656,"sku":"9781891190377","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781891190377","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}