{"product_id":"human-hours-catherine-barnett-9781555978143","title":"Human Hours: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe triumphant follow-up collection to \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Laughlin Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection, \u003ci\u003eHuman Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are \"accursed,\" that are limited--and unanswered--by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow--or at least measure--time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover's breaths; by remembering a father's space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. \u003ci\u003eHuman Hours \u003c\/i\u003epulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Barnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555978142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.60w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/16\/2018","brand":"Catherine Barnett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987880247551,"sku":"9781555978143","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0adac076-15dd-41bc-92a9-d05dd3d595b2.jpg?v=1683291399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-hours-catherine-barnett-9781555978143","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}