{"product_id":"syllabus-of-errors-9780691167688","title":"Syllabus of Errors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...we are fixed to perpetrate the species-- I meant perpetuate--as if our duty? were coupled with our terror. As if beauty itself were but a syllabus of errors. Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as \"a snappy, entertaining book,\" and led the San Francisco Chronic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of The New York Times Best Poetry Books of 2015 (selected by David Orr) \"Jollimore's third collection is intelligent, soulful and amusingly self-aware.\"--David Orr, New York Times \"Equal parts craftsman, pundit, comedian, and aphorist, Jollimore applies an impressive range of skills to lift his elegiac meditations beyond simple poignancy, not the least of which are a flair for wry wordplay and the versatility to cast his 'objectified thoughts' in unanticipated directions.\"--Library Journal (starred review) \"A philosophy professor, Jollimore provides a banquet table's worth of food for thought, but he never lets his ideas race too far ahead of his imagery, allows melancholic fatalism to submerge his acute sense of humor, or permits irony to eclipse the heartfelt sense of loss and longing at the core of his poetry.\"--Library Journal (starred review) \"Anyone who has turned to nature in the wake of tragedy will immediately relate to the poetry in Troy Jollimore's collection Syllabus of Errors. The poems themselves makeup a series of meditations informed by bird songs, and travel from the environment populated by birds and fruit through the landscape of loss and grief. And like nature, the observer of this grief will wither, and lose, and rise renewed.\"--E. Ce Miller, Bustle \"From the first lyric, 'On Birdsong,' one is captivated by Jollimore's unapologetic embrace of complex thought, of humor, doubt and praise... While the poems [in Syllabus of Errors] play with rhyme and form, experiment with line length and syntax, it is the poet's vision that stands out, not his formal mastery. This, of course, is the real trick.\"--Meryl Natchez, ZYZZYVA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Birdsong 3  Inventory 4  Ache and Echo 5  On the Origins of Things 11  Critique of Judgment 12  Homer 13  Oriole 15  Past Imperfect 16  II ON BEAUTY  On Beauty 23  Syllabus of Errors 24  Cutting Room 26  My Book 29  Going Viral 30  Bone 32  Possession 35  Death by Landscape 36  Second Wind 37  The Black-Capped  Chickadees of Martha's Vineyard 38  III ON BLINDNESS  On Blindness 43  The Apples 45  Charlie Brown 47  Some Men 49  The Proselytizers 51  Universal 52  Photograph 54  Polaroid Model 1000 OneStep, Circa 1978 55  Ars Poetica 57  The New Joys 59  IV WHEN YOU LIFT THE AVOCADO TO YOUR MOUTH  Tamara 63  The Task 64  More Broken than Yours 66  Fireworks 68  Lament 69  The Fourteen-Hour Orgasm 71  Not Enough 72  Poem for the Abandoned Titan Missile Silos Just North of Chico, California 76  Autumn Day (after Rilke) 77  The Small Rain 78  When You Lift the Avocado to Your Mouth 79  V VERTIGO  Vertigo 83  VI CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT  [maybe I just need time to grieve] 95  Notes and Acknowledgments 97","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403820638551,"sku":"9780691167688","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691167688.jpg?v=1730484640","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/syllabus-of-errors-9780691167688","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}