{"product_id":"9781926829951","title":"Invisible Dogs","description":"Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.  Invisible Dogs, Dempster's fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to the difficult business of staying alive. This is a book for when it hurts so bad you hope you'll die and are afraid you won't—not because it offers consolation or the promise of a new dawn, but because it so compellingly documents the plain, hard, ungraceful, stumbling grief of the matter, and meets it with rare self-knowledge, wry humour, and an unornamented determination to go on living.  Dempster's metaphors are like hairpin turns taken at breakneck speed. He has nerves of steel when it comes to self-examination, and it's this relentless honesty and the emotional torque it induces that keep the voice on the road.","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161888145648,"sku":"9781926829951","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926829951_p0.jpg?v=1763635467","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926829951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}