{"product_id":"reservations-9780691616605","title":"Reservations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself,\" writes James Richardson. \"Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a littl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vi*Contents, pg. vii*In Touch, pg. 1*The Tracks, pg. 5*Elegy for a Cousin, pg. 7*Writing to You after Sunset, pg. 8*The Vanished, pg. 9*A Season of Farewell, pg. 10*Lepidoptera, pg. 11*Settlements, pg. 12*The Encyclopedia of the Stones: A Pastoral for Samuel H. Monk, pg. 13*The Morning After, pg. 25*For Deucalion and Pyrrha, pg. 26*The Dead, pg. 27*Homing, pg. 28*For October, pg. 30*Set, pg. 32*Elegy for the Left Hand, pg. 33*Instructions for a Commando, pg. 34*Plowing Under, pg. 35*A Coast, pg. 36*A Few Things for the End, pg. 37*The Lake, pg. 38*A Ransom Note, pg. 39*An End of Ends, pg. 41*Somebody Else, pg. 45*Sieges, pg. 46*The Crime, pg. 47*Elegy for a Deaf Mute, pg. 48*Soutliern Railway Embankment, Charlottesville, Va., pg. 50*In the Museum of the River, pg. 52*Moving In, pg. 54*The Operations, pg. 55*Ashes, pg. 56*The Condemned, pg. 57*Close, pg. 58*The Family of Ties, pg. 59*Returns, pg. 60*Driver Education, pg. 61*Elegy for Ninety-Two and Two, pg. 63*The Will, pg. 65*Nine Thousand Days, pg. 66*Elegy for One Who Never Lived, pg. 67*A Little Answer, pg. 68*Onthe Anniversary of Your Death, pg. 69*Going North for the Winter, pg. 70*Coda for October in May they sing of October, pg. 71*The Abandoned Tracks, pg. 72*An Age, pg. 74","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403966390615,"sku":"9780691616605","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691616605.jpg?v=1730485022","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reservations-9780691616605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}