{"product_id":"errancy-paperback","title":"Errancy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham returns with great clarity and passion to her lyrical roots--and builds a rich musical meditation on desire.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these poems, Graham approaches a host of characters, each of them an embodiment of sexual, emotional, political, or spiritual desire--desire searching for its place in an age of betrayed values, an age when dreaming has been rubbed thin by reason, frayed by the speed of facts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere error is explored as an heroic form of finding one's way--a wandering toward truth, a pilgrimage guided by the body's strictest longing, here lovers stay alive in sexually-charged encounters; here, too, angels are overheard muttering warnings. Here are Pascal and his wager, Akhmatova and her refusal, and a few soldiers sleeping before a sepulcher while something incomprehensible happens behind their backs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative in its spirited merging of the sacred and the skeptical, the celestial and the earthly, The Errancy confirms Graham as \"one of our best, most important\" poets (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) and \"one of the best, and most intelligent, poets in the language\" (\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems exploring the theme of sexual, emotional, political, and spiritual desire through the eyes of a poet's characters examine the age in which we live, where dreams are not as easy as they once were. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9 x 6.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685664690239,"sku":"9780880015295","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e4cac8573875e68f75c57c6c64403c22.webp?v=1764971843","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/errancy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}