{"product_id":"blue-guide-stephen-yenser-9780226951355","title":"Blue Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by the miraculously mercurial potential of words, Stephen Yenser takes readers on a heady trip through a world full of promise yet compromised by human weakness. Set in sunny southern California and Greece, the poems of \u003ci\u003eBlue Guide \u003c\/i\u003ecast the shadow of mortality, and the tones are elegiac. This combination of the deadly serious and the exuberant is natural, Yenser notes; after all, \u003ci\u003ework \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eorgy\u003c\/i\u003e share the same etymological root, as do \u003ci\u003etravail \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003etravel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epledge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eplay\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing various poetic modes, Yenser offers here a quatrain written to name a painting by Dorothea Tanning; a sequence of poems for his daughter; an excursive poem at once about Los Angeles and Baghdad and his father and a petty criminal; a group of prose poems set in penumbral bars; some postcards to a dead friend; and a meditation prompted by a sojourn on a remote Aegean island. The most unexpected work is an assemblage of quotations and glosses in the tradition of the commonplace book, except that in Yenser's hands these entries are densely interrelated\u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Yenser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226951359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226951355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.34w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/03\/2006 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2006 pg. 124","brand":"Stephen Yenser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075975573759,"sku":"9780226951355","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab91ccf1-17c6-4cd2-bbeb-4b2c9cb96fe7.jpg?v=1685462490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blue-guide-stephen-yenser-9780226951355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}