{"product_id":"9781941196113","title":"Jagged Tune","description":"\"How can the world be anything but a music made out of what we are, a jagged tune, a knife song, a wild blood and bone aria? In Rob Talbert's energetic, frightening, human, kinetic collection we can hear every note. I want to download this book into the musical score it is and listen to it whenever I'm alone but desperately need the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Matthew Dickman\u003cp\u003e\"Rob Talbert's Jagged Tune is a gorgeous post-industrial lyric hymn to minimum-wage jobs: from corrections officer to pawn shop employee to cruise ship attendant to insurance certificate specialist to retail clerk to unemployed and back again, Talbert's poems-hewn from life experience-contrast the constraints of work with the ecstasy of nightclubs, their \"feral engine\" and \"deep recess of liquor techno.\" \"My life depends on night,\" he writes, and this is a nocturnal book that embraces the wonder of darkness, its broken song. I am awed by these poems-their unyielding eye, their deft music, their capacity for wisdom, and all the ways in which they illuminate facets of the American experience that we rarely see.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Erika Meitner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061925724400,"sku":"9781941196113","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941196113_p0.jpg?v=1763668646","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941196113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}