{"product_id":"july-paperback","title":"July - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Ossip\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country--whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book's crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem \"July.\" In a generous fifty pages, Ossip recounts a road trip from Bemidji, MN, to Key West, FL, with her daughter riding shotgun. Inspired by images that flick across their car windows and nurtured by intimate conversation and plenty of time to think, the poem has an entertaining cinematic sweep. There are poems based on bumper stickers, the names of churches, little shops. Traveling tests her beliefs, and Ossip fully discloses her doubts and confusions. Ossip is an unconventional, mighty magician with words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Ossip is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Do-Over\u003c\/i\u003e, a New York Times Editors' Choice; \u003ci\u003eThe Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's best books of 2011; \u003ci\u003eThe Search Engine\u003c\/i\u003e, which was selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eCinephrastics\u003c\/i\u003e, a chapbook of movie poems. She teaches at The New School in New York, and she has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699637522495,"sku":"9781946448781","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/86e5fab670d066474dd5921829f7e494.webp?v=1765013989","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/july-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}