{"product_id":"best-bones-sarah-rose-nordgren-9780822963172","title":"Best Bones","description":"\u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Best Bones is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garments--mother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into \"a mansion steering itself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eBest Bones\u003c\/i\u003e also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Rose Nordgren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822963175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822963172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Sarah Rose Nordgren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926548152575,"sku":"9780822963172","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_53581f9c-82e5-42d1-8f6e-81a2359f0559.jpg?v=1681083682","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/best-bones-sarah-rose-nordgren-9780822963172","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}