{"product_id":"fear-of-description-9780143134381","title":"Fear of Description","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments, narrative poems that find millennials adrift--in political upheaval and personal crisis--and trying to find their way back to one another\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals, precariously (or just un-) employed, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet's future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical  accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election, \u003ci\u003eFear of Description \u003c\/i\u003ereinvigorates the prose poem, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship, artifice and technology, writing and ritual, hauntings and obsessions--searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62232790827395,"sku":"9780143134381","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780143134381.jpg?v=1785350536","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/fear-of-description-9780143134381","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}