{"product_id":"9781893996601","title":"Watching Cartoons Before Attending a Funeral","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first full-length collection of work marks the emergence of a strong new voice in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWatching Cartoons Before Attending a Funeral\u003c\/i\u003e enacts an intimate and familiar accord between personal and communal perception—‘the etiquette failure teaches, the quiet an owl inspires’—the sweet sting of living. He ‘lowers a lens’ and we see what has been there all along, so self-evident yet willfully avoided. The poet endows our thousand and one indiscretions with a human face and the words to admit them. Watching Cartoons is a risk and a beckoning.\"—C.D. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Surowiecki\u003c\/b\u003e, born and raised in Meridan, Connecticut, received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Connecticut. He lives in Amston, Connecticut, where he is a freelance writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050878222576,"sku":"9781893996601","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781893996601_p0.jpg?v=1763609623","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781893996601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}