{"product_id":"errancy-jorie-graham-9780880015295","title":"Errancy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham returns with great clarity and passion to her lyrical roots--and builds a rich musical meditation on desire.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these poems, Graham approaches a host of characters, each of them an embodiment of sexual, emotional, political, or spiritual desire--desire searching for its place in an age of betrayed values, an age when dreaming has been rubbed thin by reason, frayed by the speed of facts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere error is explored as an heroic form of finding one's way--a wandering toward truth, a pilgrimage guided by the body's strictest longing, here lovers stay alive in sexually-charged encounters; here, too, angels are overheard muttering warnings. Here are Pascal and his wager, Akhmatova and her refusal, and a few soldiers sleeping before a sepulcher while something incomprehensible happens behind their backs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative in its spirited merging of the sacred and the skeptical, the celestial and the earthly, The Errancy confirms Graham as \"one of our best, most important\" poets (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) and \"one of the best, and most intelligent, poets in the language\" (\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorie Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0880015292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780880015295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.24w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/1998 pg. 48","brand":"Jorie Graham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476874158335,"sku":"9780880015295","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f972ff4-578d-4ec5-b29b-4dca9840c4b8.jpg?v=1715918410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/errancy-jorie-graham-9780880015295","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}