{"product_id":"the-zoo-at-night-9781496202055","title":"The Zoo at Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat’s \u003ci\u003eThe Zoo at Night\u003c\/i\u003ereflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as “night thoughts” resembling nocturnes, in which “a bit of light leaks in.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Both experimental and classic, Gubernat’s poems combine formal and free verse elements. A(mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequenceseeksto recall the world of apre-digital childhood when physical objects—tactile, mechanical—took on totemic import andmagical significance. Otherpoems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the “thingness” of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craftand exits with feeling.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rising out of experience—painful, beautiful, disruptive—\u003ci\u003eThe Zoo at Night \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an unflinching look at an imperfect world underlain with a conviction to hope.\"—Lisa Higgs, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Beauty is always strange,’ says Baudelaire, and in Susan Gubernat’s brilliant \u003ci\u003eThe Zoo at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, we have a grand tour of the many ways that the world, arriving directly under our noses, can remain, everlastingly, embodied and mysterious.”—Mark Svenvold, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Burlesque\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBig Weather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“For those of us who believe in words—their merit as instruments of inquiry, their aptitude for beauty, their power of linking soul to soul—these are difficult times. Open these pages, and find your hope restored. Susan Gubernat’s are poems of meticulous craftsmanship, luminous apprehension, and unfailing heart. I’m grateful beyond measure for this book.”—Linda Gregerson, author of \u003ci\u003eMagnetic North\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e Etruscans\u003cbr\u003e Wedding Cookies\u003cbr\u003e The Right Hand of Goltzius\u003cbr\u003e I Was in Gym Class When Cronkite Said They’d Shot Him\u003cbr\u003e Sharing a Birthday with Mata Hari\u003cbr\u003e Atlantic City\u003cbr\u003e Smart Enough\u003cbr\u003e The Roosevelt\u003cbr\u003e Christmas Fires\u003cbr\u003e Winter Coats\u003cbr\u003e After the Abortion\u003cbr\u003e Shaggy Parasol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II\u003cbr\u003e Analog House: A Cabinet of Curiosities\u003cbr\u003e The Singer\u003cbr\u003e Easter Bread\u003cbr\u003e Hades\u003cbr\u003e Doberman\u003cbr\u003e Meat Grinder\u003cbr\u003e Piano Bench\u003cbr\u003e 13th Fairy\u003cbr\u003e Washboard\u003cbr\u003e Clothesline\u003cbr\u003e Feather Duster\u003cbr\u003e Spirit Level\u003cbr\u003e Paint-by-Number\u003cbr\u003e Net\u003cbr\u003e Netting\u003cbr\u003e Hats, Purses, Gloves\u003cbr\u003e Vestibule\u003cbr\u003e Deliberate Happiness\u003cbr\u003e Photo on Pony\u003cbr\u003e Underwood in Flames\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III\u003cbr\u003e The Zoo at Night (1)\u003cbr\u003e Aphasia of the Moon\u003cbr\u003e Sick Child\u003cbr\u003e Filia\u003cbr\u003e Poster Children\u003cbr\u003e La Sebastiana\u003cbr\u003e Portrait at Fourteen\u003cbr\u003e Ground Time\u003cbr\u003e No Warrior\u003cbr\u003e The Collective\u003cbr\u003e Deathbed Proof\u003cbr\u003e Day Lilies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV\u003cbr\u003e The Zoo at Night (2)\u003cbr\u003e The Entrance of Beauty\u003cbr\u003e Yellow Sweater\u003cbr\u003e Too Soon\u003cbr\u003e On a Scale Of\u003cbr\u003e Fonder\u003cbr\u003e My Sister and I Are Having the Same Dream\u003cbr\u003e Reading Loop: The Sibyl at Cumae\u003cbr\u003e Mating Dance\u003cbr\u003e Prey\u003cbr\u003e Eclipse\u003cbr\u003e The Buddhas of Bamiyan\u003cbr\u003e Our Road\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e V\u003cbr\u003e “Report a Problem with This Poem”\u003cbr\u003e “Beautiful Contrivances” in the Sex Life of Orchids\u003cbr\u003e Fumée d’Ambre Gris\u003cbr\u003e The Fascicles of Emily Dickinson\u003cbr\u003e My Mother in the Eye of the Storm\u003cbr\u003e Blue Tooth\u003cbr\u003e Ground Note\u003cbr\u003e Near Capitol Reef, Utah\u003cbr\u003e Pears in Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409217036631,"sku":"9781496202055","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496202055.jpg?v=1730505987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-zoo-at-night-9781496202055","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}