{"product_id":"9781931968928","title":"Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland. Harmon's Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. If you're not part of the problem, \/ you're part of the lengthening \/ tragedy, Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out the stray \/ detours and workarounds of the secret \/ city inside the more obvious one... on the outskirts of the absurd \/ attention to the material life. Poughkeepsie is that city of the heart where no one can look at anyone else alone, where the noise of beauty is a cop's bullet polishing off a traffic-struck doe, where five dollars takes you anywhere in this town \/ except out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Of Akron Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053186597104,"sku":"9781931968928","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931968928_p0.jpg?v=1763639113","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931968928","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}