{"product_id":"9781938160271","title":"The Keys to the Jail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Keys to the Jail\u003c\/i\u003e asks the question of who is to blame for all we’ve lost, calling us to reexamine the harsh words of failed love, the aging of a once-beautiful body, even our own voracious desires. Keetje Kuipers is a poet of daring leaps and unflinching observations, whose richly textured lyrics travel from Montana’s great wildernesses to the ocean-fogged streets of San Francisco as they search out the heart that’s lost its way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDolores Park\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the flattening California dusk,\u003cbr\u003ewomen gather under palms with their bags\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof bottles and cans. The grass is feathered\u003cbr\u003ewith the trash of the day, paper napkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eblowing across the legs of those who still\u003cbr\u003edrown on a patchwork of blankets. Shirtless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the phosphorescent gloom of streetlamps,\u003cbr\u003ethey lie suspended. This is my one good\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elife—watching the exchange of embraces,\u003cbr\u003ecounting the faces assembled outside\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe ice-cream shop, sweet tinge of urine by\u003cbr\u003ethe bridge above the tracks, broken bike lock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the gay couple’s hands, desperate clapping\u003cbr\u003eof dark pigeons—who will take it from me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, \u003cb\u003eKeetje Kuipers\u003c\/b\u003e's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful in the Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. She has been the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, and is currently an assistant professor at Auburn University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165460414704,"sku":"9781938160271","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938160271_p0.jpg?v=1763662105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938160271","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}