{"product_id":"how-to-laugh-miles-champion-9780976161271","title":"How to Laugh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There really is an intelligence to these that creates a texture unlike any other; I can't yet describe it but it has to do with variable motions and rhythms, time signatures almost, that strike me as always alert, always attentive, always capable.\"--William Fuller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are all inviting, and it seems to me that's an amazingly rare quality in poems, and even this old Brit submits to the pleasure they give. . . . There's radiance from all these poems.\"--John Wilkinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Miles Champion uses just the necessary words, and puts them in interesting places: definitely hard to film.\"--Tom Raworth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Walls\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003egive bound to a susceptible formalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebends the show of things to a brain-like source\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigns of rust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eabandon a whistle or paint chip\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProblems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eare prefigured like flowers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoofs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrisk in the air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBridges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eflip an aesthetic switch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003etransfigure maples and alders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ecomes into ear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtremities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003emilling about\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiles Champion\u003c\/b\u003e moved to New York City from London in 2002. His other books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eSore Models\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFacture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEventually\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThree Bell Zero\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles Champion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0976161273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780976161271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Adventures in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Miles Champion","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48850224972031,"sku":"9780976161271","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-laugh-miles-champion-9780976161271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}