{"product_id":"central-air-mike-puican-9780810142077","title":"Central Air: Poems","description":"Set in the urban Chicago landscape, \u003ci\u003eCentral Air \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the human challenge of living with strong desires, limited knowledge, and no saving direction. The voices in this mix of elegies and soft litanies negotiate lives within the strangeness and unpredictability of each moment. In every case, language is a swift prayer, ode, and lyric. Chicago is an intensely experienced, blue-collar homeplace where injustice is a given. The poems are stern, compressed, and unsentimental. But they are also empathic to human shortcomings and doubts, scored in unobtrusive consistency in both voice and language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Puican's focus on the city, its people and underbellied spaces, pays homage in the tradition of the great Chicago masters: Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Campbell McGrath. This contemporary Chicago son finds his own place with lyrical integrity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Puican\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810142074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810142077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triquarterly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.30d","brand":"Mike Puican","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227862462719,"sku":"9780810142077","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_040a330e-e093-49fe-bd6a-5613e07128ed.jpg?v=1692811011","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/central-air-mike-puican-9780810142077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}