{"product_id":"9781937378615","title":"Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie","description":"Winner 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.\"","brand":"University of Akron Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116487786736,"sku":"9781937378615","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937378615_p0.jpg?v=1763661794","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937378615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}