{"product_id":"9781929918782","title":"Splendor","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteve Kronen’s poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. Some of the poems in \u003ci\u003eSplendor\u003c\/i\u003e focus on our inescapable vulnerability due to aging or accident. \u003ci\u003eSplendor\u003c\/i\u003e also includes love poems to the author’s wife and daughter. Many of the poems are rhymed and metered and use formal elements such as sonnets, villanelles, a sestina, a Dantean canzone, nonce forms, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Kronen\u003c\/b\u003e’s first book, \u003ci\u003eEmpirical Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Poems from \u003ci\u003eSplendor\u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040187269360,"sku":"9781929918782","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781929918782_p0.jpg?v=1763637647","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781929918782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}