{"product_id":"the-banjo-clock-poems-9780520273160","title":"The Banjo Clock  Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn poems that consider poetry itself, the poet writes about preparing the medium, the ink, the motion of new utility. She then turns to America's psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV's blue depressive light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Karen Garthe writes some of the most expert-and tightly-wound-lyric poems you'll ever read... If discussions of the sort Karen Garthe is performing in The Banjo Clock ... don't really interest you, that's okay: Just stop reading poetry right now, pick up your favorite beach novella, and forget the world's oldest form of literary currency still exists in any appreciable volume... What Garthe is offering today's poetry readers is a reason to read poetry rather than prose.\" -- Seth Abramson Huffington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFanta grape  Rid the kitchen   Ikebana   Gorge  Ink Runs   REHAB (we want grace walls)  National sky   Buckle up, Sweetie   Piranesi under The Keystone of A   Eternal Youth  PARTITA Flat-out Mars  To Dolls Big as Clara  Bear Dolly Loves the Ocean Little Soulyard, 1 Island of the Judge who kept us  State Fair First surge Cable  my Liebestod Frail of a year Midwest soldiering PARTITA  Little Soulyard, 2 Sadly, I noticed Andrew, all bespoke The Porticos of Toulouse Porn Guy Idee Fixe  Champagne Blondes\/Little Scrap of Irony The Challenge  59th Street Station  Sweet Thing Theology  To the Cinematographer High Nouns Shepherd  Speak Revenue  mantra Solace Ritual The Dark Dauphine  A Letter from Home To Karen Dalton Call Sleeping The Chiffon Artist Beauty Mandarin Character, YELLO CROWN  Water Quip Poem on Velvet \u0026amp; Fire's Extra Fun  djinns in orbit 14 lines 2 hands writing Blue Hour Great Expectations Great North Primitive Story Bread Alone Poem on Velvet, Carnegie Hall Floating Island Red Sleep WIDOW    on a train Outside's Baby Krishna crawls to bliss The Banjo Clock  Acknowledgments Notes","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359050694999,"sku":"9780520273160","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520273160.jpg?v=1754123377","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-banjo-clock-poems-9780520273160","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}