{"product_id":"forge-paperback","title":"Forge - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Mathys\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Ohio, New York, and Eastern Europe form the backdrop for the beauty and pathos unleashed in these poems. Using the vernacular of his Rust Belt heritage, Mathys builds upon memory and myth in a passionate exploration of culture, faith, sexuality, and artistic creation. Reaffirming poetry's place in shaping the perceptions of our world, these tensile, incantatory poems find lyric grace in shaping a poetics amidst the fragmentation of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Wooster, Ohio, and a graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota, \u003cb\u003eTed Mathys\u003c\/b\u003e has taught English in Hong Kong and worked for the US State Department in Berlin. A 2005 National Endowment for the Arts literary fellow, Mathys now lives and works in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Mathys is the author Forge and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Verse, and elsewhere. An Ohio native, Mathys has lived and worked in Berlin, Hong Kong, and New York and currently studies law and diplomacy at Tufts University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 93\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9.02 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701307904063,"sku":"9781566891783","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/92795806c6d73e5c41a48cd0a1edfeb7.webp?v=1765020139","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/forge-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}