{"product_id":"human-nature-toby-olson-9780811214407","title":"Human Nature","description":"Olson's first book of new poetry in sixteen years. \u003ci\u003eHuman Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is the poet and novelist Toby Olson's first book of new poetry since \u003ci\u003eWe Are the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (New Directions, 1984). The intervening years saw five of his novels published to strong critical acclaim. \"But,\" says Olson, \"one day I woke from fiction to discover I'd not written a poem in close to ten years. How to return to poetry after being away from it so long?\" Certainly not in repetition of things done before. In \u003ci\u003eHuman Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, Olson joins the novelist's art to the poet's reflections of friends and events and times gone by. When memory fades, replaced by story, the reader of these remarkable narrative meditations begins to realize the ways in which poetry might disclose different truths, born of the reinvention of experience. \"In \u003ci\u003eHuman Nature\u003c\/i\u003e,\" says Olson, \"even the most autobiographical poems let fiction in.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toby Olson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811214400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.03w x 0.34d","brand":"Toby Olson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962519933183,"sku":"9780811214407","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c2de322-325e-44e0-b19b-5291965dd514.jpg?v=1750651696","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-nature-toby-olson-9780811214407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}