{"product_id":"9781934414569","title":"House Inspections","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These poems do much more than blur the line between illusion and reality: they evoke that vibrant contradiction of dreaming in which the real and unreal exist in perfect simultaneity.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheatre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA man performs whole days from his life as a drama, each day at home in his apartment. He goes to great lengths to be as realistic as possible, walking around the apartment and tending to day-to-day business. Only at night, when he sits by himself in the kitchen, does he peek now and then at the window to glimpse his audience. He won't completely abandon the notion that someone is out there. It's like when you stand on the landing, in front of a closed door, and you can't help thinking that someone is watching through the peephole.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a dozen poems previously published in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Carsten René Nielsen is already a familiar name to US poetry readers. These dark prose poems—reminiscent of Charles Simic—map out a uniquely European territory with chilling, cinematic clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Danish poet \u003cb\u003eCarsten René Nielsen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine books of poetry, including his US debut \u003ci\u003eThe World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). His poems appear in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCircumference\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in Aarhus, Denmark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Keplinger\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry awards include the Colorado Book Award, T.S. Eliot Prize, an NEA fellowship, and grants from the Danish Arts Council. He directs the MFA program at American University in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044186996976,"sku":"9781934414569","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934414569_p0.jpg?v=1763642417","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934414569","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}