{"product_id":"9781930974821","title":"Dirt Angels","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"Donald Platt's aptly titled and arresting fourth collection of poems, DIRT ANGELS, examines how we exist in states of physical disrepair, decay, and disability: the world's transience exhibited in the slow degradation of our very consciousness and flesh. And yet this awareness should not incapacitate us, Platt suggests; rather, it should further disarm us to the fleeting charms that make up a life: the corruptible beauty in the bodies of our children and loved ones, the ways language itself haphazardly'cross-pollinate[s], misspoken and misheard' and yet still blossoms. DIRT ANGELS offers its readers resolute, if embattled, joyfulness through Platt's gorgeous language: itself a sinuous vocabulary of praise even in the face of mishap and pain\"---Paisley Rekdal.","brand":"New Issues Poetry \u0026 Prose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063054188784,"sku":"9781930974821","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781930974821_p0.jpg?v=1763637862","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781930974821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}