{"product_id":"ranking-the-wishes-isbn-9780140587791","title":"Ranking the Wishes","description":"In his seventh book, Carl Dennis explores the ways in which our wishes - those in our power to fulfill at any moment and those that have no chance of ever being realized - define who we are. While some of the poems view wishing as a failure to do justice to the world we have, others regard it as a recognition that no present, however rich, can satisfy the imagination, and suggest that one of the functions of poetry is to keep significant wishes alive. In showing with moving clarity how wishes are essential to giving shape and direction to the moment, these poems make use of a rich variety of genres: elegy, advice, meditation, warning, consolation, and prophecy.Ranking the WishesFall\u003cbr\u003eCedar Point\u003cbr\u003eTime Zones\u003cbr\u003eLoss\u003cbr\u003eDays of Heaven\u003cbr\u003eTo Reason\u003cbr\u003eGifts\u003cbr\u003ePendulum\u003cbr\u003eParley\u003cbr\u003eSeven Days\u003cbr\u003eSarit Narai\u003cbr\u003eHoly Brethren\u003cbr\u003eSwindle\u003cbr\u003eSay It\u003cbr\u003eNight Drive\u003cbr\u003eThe Line\u003cbr\u003eTune-Up\u003cbr\u003eThe Canvasser Knocks\u003cbr\u003eAunt Celia\u003cbr\u003eAs If\u003cbr\u003eThe Messenger\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Day\u003cbr\u003eThe Pond in Winter\u003cbr\u003eAll I've Wanted\u003cbr\u003eInventory\u003cbr\u003eThe Pancake Hour\u003cbr\u003eTo the Soul\u003cbr\u003eDistinctions\u003cbr\u003eLand and Sea\u003cbr\u003eGrace\u003cbr\u003eConsolation\u003cbr\u003eBivouac Near Trenton\u003cbr\u003eGenres\u003cbr\u003eTwo or Three Wishes\u003cbr\u003eInteger\u003cbr\u003eWriting at Night\u003cbr\u003eStill Life\u003cbr\u003eStarry Night\u003cbr\u003eYour CityCarl Dennis is the author of nine books of poetry, including \u003cb\u003ePractical Gods\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, in 2000 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize from \u003cb\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e and the Modern Poetry Association for his contribution to American poetry. He teaches in the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is a sometime member of the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at Warren Wilson College.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302780686565,"sku":"NP9780140587791","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140587791.jpg?v=1767735402","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ranking-the-wishes-isbn-9780140587791","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}