{"product_id":"black-series-poems-isbn-9780375709654","title":"Black Series: Poems","description":"In her remarkable \u003ci\u003eBlack Series\u003c\/i\u003e, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. “I can almost taste the glassy air,” she writes. “Where are the birds in it, \/ wings lifting as currents buffet them like echoes, bright \/ chaos of atomized instances . . . ?” Roaming freely in the shifting landscape of the imagination, Sheck delivers an inner life that is just as vivid as what we see around us; at the same time, she shows us what we see in a new light, bringing illumination even to darkness:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the black night that wakes in me, \u003cbr\u003eso dominant, so focused.\u003cbr\u003eAnd then a car goes by and I think, \u003cbr\u003e“I’m in the world,”\u003cbr\u003etires kicking up gravel from the dust.\u003cbr\u003eWhat does the orange hawkweed do \u003cbr\u003einside this dark–its radiance\u003cbr\u003esecretive but not extinguished?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read this collection is to discover at every turn that secretive but undeniable radiance, and a language that is both riveting and distinctive.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305290387685,"sku":"NP9780375709654","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375709654.jpg?v=1767722719","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/black-series-poems-isbn-9780375709654","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}