{"product_id":"a-portrait-of-energy-aaron-d-wiegert-9798899750595","title":"A Portrait of Energy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAaron D. Wiegert's A Portrait of Energy pays close attention to the textures of Midwestern life, the specific weight of a father sharing a picture of his headstone on his phone, the half-dollar earned for a day's work taking garbage to the dump, the smell of laundry drifting up from a basement ping pong table. The book moves between rural childhood and urban adulthood, at home in both, where one might \"escape from a wasp and be struck by a car\" but also find love, passion, and \"the clouds of family.\" Wiegert is a poet of accumulation and close observation, patient with the ordinary and unafraid of the dark corners where honest family memory collects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-John Gallaher, The Laurel Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in Aaron Wiegert's \u003cem\u003eA Portrait of Energy\u003c\/em\u003e are inventive, musical and authentic in their depictions of family ties across generations. They also offer vivid, cinematic glimpses into the age-old quests of finding self, love and purpose against a Midwestern backdrop. These poems celebrate the extraordinary and strange details of everyday existence, with language that is urgent and exciting-there are so many evocative, amazing examples of wordplay and storytelling here-gripping poems as alive in their wisdom as they are in their wonder.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Kevin Ridgeway, author of \u003cem\u003eDeath of the Coppertone Girl\u003c\/em\u003e (Luchador Press)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron D. Wiegert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899750595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Luchador Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Aaron D. Wiegert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997955698943,"sku":"9798899750595","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-portrait-of-energy-aaron-d-wiegert-9798899750595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}