{"product_id":"9781940696140","title":"Illocality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I find it refreshing and somehow also sobering to observe the way Massey sticks so closely to the perceptual world. Like William Carlos Williams, he challenges us to see the value in putting things in words.\"—Rae Armantrout, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Massey composed \u003ci\u003eIllocality \u003c\/i\u003ein his first year in western Massachusetts. Massey's austere landscapes channel the quiet shock, euphoria, and introspection that come with reorientation to place. His language fights apathy with grace and sensitivity. Here are poems with their eyes on seasons, plants, sunlight, and animals, all the while looking for stability and the language to describe it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Parse\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe speed\u003cbr\u003eat which sleep's fogged dialogue withers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003einto the present noun-scape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis rift valley \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA volley of\u003cbr\u003eseasonal beacons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Massey \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eAreas of Fog \u003c\/i\u003e(Shearsman Books, 2009), \u003ci\u003eAt the Point \u003c\/i\u003e(Shearsman Books, 2011), \u003ci\u003eTo Keep Time \u003c\/i\u003e(Omnidawn, 2014), as well as thirteen chapbooks and various limited-edition broadsides and folios. His work has also appeared in many journals and magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e A Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVerse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/i\u003e; and in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eVisiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Iowa Press, 2011), \u003ci\u003eHaiku in English: The First Hundred Years \u003c\/i\u003e(W.W. Norton \u0026amp; Company, 2013) and \u003ci\u003ePlease Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation \u003c\/i\u003e(Viking Penguin, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057601954032,"sku":"9781940696140","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940696140_p0.jpg?v=1763754615","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940696140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}