{"product_id":"harm-poems-9780874175370","title":"Harm  Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry that considers a life lived in the American West, in a family, in a body that bears the residue of blue-collar work long into adulthood, and the undoing of that body by age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The language here is so muscular, the metaphors so sharply and freshly drawn, the insights so unsentimental, that I was won over to the breadth and depth of the work, the new facets of masculinity revealed by a writer who insists on telling the blunt and rocky truth about what it has meant to him to be a man.\" - Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Writing the Sacred into the Real \"These are not pink poems for pale people. The voice - edgy, wry, wittily ironic - reminds me, through its refusal to lie, of Larkin, Alan Dugan, Levine, while avoiding all show-biz 'authenticity.' Nor is this a first book in the usual sense. Instead, it's the art of a grown man's 'true naming at eye level.' Thus in his highly re-readable compressions of a difficult lifetime, Wilson's depth and craft give lessons in the force of few words, the unsaid as a presence.\" - Reg Saner, author of Climbing into the Roots","brand":"MP-NEV University of Nevada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038997610839,"sku":"9780874175370","price":12.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780874175370.jpg?v=1750942219","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/harm-poems-9780874175370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}