{"product_id":"a-night-in-brooklyn-d-nurkse-9780375712210","title":"A Night in Brooklyn: Poems","description":"D. Nurkse's deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here Nurkse brings alive the particular details that shape a life, in this case unique to the world of Brooklyn--a job at the Arnold Grill, \"topping off drafts with a paddle\" for the truckers who came in; the deaf white alley cat that mysteriously survived the winter on a stoop in Bensonhurst; the narrow bed where young love took place; the wild gardens behind the tenements. His exploration of this almost mythic city past is combined with a sense of the future speeding toward us--the ongoing riddle of time and being in a larger universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e . . . And she who was driving said, \u003cbr\u003e We know the coming disaster intimately but the present is unknowable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Which disaster, I wondered, sexual or geological? But I was shy: \u003cbr\u003e her beauty was like a language she didn't speak and had never heard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From \"The Present\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. Nurkse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375712216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375712210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.40d","brand":"D. Nurkse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190549639423,"sku":"9780375712210","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23cbbd3c-cbb7-498e-9a87-a7b725d2cc9b.jpg?v=1690871137","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-night-in-brooklyn-d-nurkse-9780375712210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}