{"product_id":"sufficiency-of-the-actual-9780252033094","title":"Sufficiency of the Actual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stein writes about ordinary objects in unremarkable lives—lawn mowers and Dodge pickups and TV sets and baseball caps—but upon that humble stuff, he sheds the golden radiance of close attention. His poems are delivered in everyday language, which means that when the epiphanies come, they pack a punch.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A self-deprecating societal evaluation that has a tendency to hug and butcher, with lightning word choices that ring seconds after the last of the thunder has been heard.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Many of Kevin Stein's poems hinge personal to social history, opening the private to the public and examining what connects and disconnects us. It's as if he wants to reside where the self meets the group, and discover there some sense of responsibility, of causal involvement with the world. He uses the focused moment of poetry to show how one life can speak to the condition of a country, and asks that we look critically at our involvement in the society we have made. This is a compelling and large-minded book.\"--Bob Hicok\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne\u003cbr\u003e Autumnal   3\u003cbr\u003e Sufficiency of the Actual   5\u003cbr\u003e On Being a Nielsen Family   7\u003cbr\u003e (My) History of Parsley   8\u003cbr\u003e September Falls Is No River's   10\u003cbr\u003e News Crawl   11\u003cbr\u003e Mars' Karma   12\u003cbr\u003e Lives of the Painters   14\u003cbr\u003e Middle-aged Adam's and Eve's Bedside Tables   16\u003cbr\u003e Ike's Caddy   18\u003cbr\u003e Talk Radio   23\u003cbr\u003e Blue Tuesday   24\u003cbr\u003e In Human Hands   26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo\u003cbr\u003e To Balance   31\u003cbr\u003e Postcard to Henry James   33\u003cbr\u003e Capitalism   34\u003cbr\u003e A Day's Work   36\u003cbr\u003e Song of the Night Shift Foreman   38\u003cbr\u003e On Thinking of the Second Time They Sholved Up Mr. Lincoln   40\u003cbr\u003e Pre-Bowdlerized Version of Poem for a Fourth-Grade Illinois History Text   43\u003cbr\u003e CR5115STD Responds to the National Consumer Survey   45\u003cbr\u003e Post-Feminist Machismo   47\u003cbr\u003e Poet's Genie   48\u003cbr\u003e Parakeet and Dark Star   49\u003cbr\u003e Mowing the Lawn   50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appetites Early and Other   53\u003cbr\u003e Aesthetics of Desire   55\u003cbr\u003e Natural Selection   58\u003cbr\u003e Religion   60\u003cbr\u003e Upon the Porch Swing's Time Machine   61\u003cbr\u003e To My Hair   63\u003cbr\u003e Lovesong Ending with (    )   65\u003cbr\u003e At the Mountain Man Rendezvous in Fairplay, Colorado   67\u003cbr\u003e Inverse Aviary in which Birds Talk   69\u003cbr\u003e On Reading \u003ci\u003ePrince Valiant\u003c\/i\u003e in the Sunday Comics   71\u003cbr\u003e Slippery Slope   73\u003cbr\u003e Colonialism    74\u003cbr\u003e Parable of the American Stag Party   76\u003cbr\u003e Arts of Joy   78\u003cbr\u003e Youthful Indiscretions   79\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036813427031,"sku":"9780252033094","price":47.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252033094.jpg?v=1750932636","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sufficiency-of-the-actual-9780252033094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}