{"product_id":"phantom-laundry-michael-tyrell-9780995684300","title":"Phantom Laundry: Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Tyrell poems have appeared in many publications, including \u003cem\u003eAgni, The Best American Poetry 2015\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The Iowa Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Verse Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Yale Review. \u003c\/em\u003e His first collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Wanted\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 2012 from the National Poetry Review Press. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhantom Laundry is his second poetry collection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wet and cold my country, where the softener seeps in but the powder burns still in washing tone.\" Through prose poems, found-verse collages, fractured short stories, and micro-fictions, Michael Tyrell's \u003cem\u003ePhantom Laundry \u003c\/em\u003ereveals an America caught in a ferocious cycle--fixed on apocalyptic omens and numbed by reruns and reality TV, but still inexorably drawn to the possibility of redemption and recovered purity: \"Clean now, never been so clean. God died a useful thing.\" Running the gamut between fairy-tale characters and infamous killers, Hollywood icons and urban legends, \u003cem\u003ePhantom Laundry \u003c\/em\u003ealso considers how the seemingly ordinary, apparently desolate life might be momentarily renewed thanks to the playful miracles of language: \"What tenderness in smoothing over the delicacies, overalls and overnothing arguments.\" With this, his second collection, Tyrell continues to make a name for himself as a strikingly original poet whose work blends comic word-play with haunting gravitas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Tyrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0995684308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780995684300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Backlash Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Michael Tyrell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47452598993151,"sku":"9780995684300","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e77c6d42-0854-4416-b57a-cea79a0cdb6e.jpg?v=1761929378","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/phantom-laundry-michael-tyrell-9780995684300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}