{"product_id":"proceed-to-check-out-alan-shapiro-9780226817545","title":"Proceed to Check Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alan Shapiro's fourteenth collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eProceed to Check Out\u003c\/i\u003e, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife. These poems take on fundamental subjects--like the nature of time and consciousness and how or why we become who we are--but Shapiro presses them into becoming urgent and timely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Employing idiomatic range and formal variety, Shapiro's poems move through recurring dreams, the coercions of childhood, and the mysterious connections of mind and matter, pleasure and memory. They meet an abiding need to find empathy and understanding in even the most challenging places--amid disaffection, public discord, and estrangement. His grasp of contemporary life--in all its insidious violence and beauty--is distinct, comprehensive, and profound. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226817547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226817545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Alan Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995437695231,"sku":"9780226817545","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30874491-c854-446f-b48e-d2de77fd4417.jpg?v=1683335815","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proceed-to-check-out-alan-shapiro-9780226817545","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}