{"product_id":"old-stranger-joan-larkin-9781949944648","title":"Old Stranger: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this sixth collection from a beloved American poet, the reader is asked to reflect on the stranger within others--and ourselves. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe speaker in\u003ci\u003e Old Stranger: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e begs to be seen and known, even when faced with her aging and her own mortality. Even as we age, there's a looming space for the mysterious stranger we embody without realizing it. Do we ever truly know who we are? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the book, familiarity takes so many forms, as does the stranger: sometimes the stranger is a loved one, sometimes it is the speaker to themselves, and other times it's one who might seem like a stranger in the poem but turns out to be recognizable in one or more ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are looking back, but at the same time we are so much in the present, there's an in-betweenness of the temporal that is so dreamlike and delicious. The poems are suspended and feel weightless even as their subjects are weighty and, at times, dark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Larkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949944646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949944648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Joan Larkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45065029517567,"sku":"9781949944648","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d56d5c73-612d-4e78-bd71-730413411b74.jpg?v=1712125425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/old-stranger-joan-larkin-9781949944648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}