{"product_id":"in-the-time-of-assignments-isbn-9780979663604","title":"In the Time of Assignments","description":"\u003ci\u003eIn the Time of Assignments\u003c\/i\u003e transforms a decade’s worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martin’s work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator’s evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragmentary narrative exhibited in Martin’s novels takes hold here in long, poetic sequences and angled interludes; lyric is the steady underpinning.\u003cb\u003eDouglas A. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Virginia and raised in Georgia. He earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia, an MFA in creative writing from the New School, and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eMy Gradual Demise \u0026amp; Honeysuckle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eServicing the Salamander\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Haiku Year\u003c\/i\u003e—a project that required him to compose a haiku a day. He has also published a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThey Change the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, and a trilogy of prose pieces, \u003ci\u003eYour Body Figured\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels include \u003ci\u003eOutline of My Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, named an International Book of the Year in \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; \u003ci\u003eBranwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOnce You Go Back \u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWolf\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303180030181,"sku":"NP9780979663604","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780979663604.jpg?v=1767729987","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-the-time-of-assignments-isbn-9780979663604","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}