{"product_id":"quite-apart-krystal-languell-9781629221427","title":"Quite Apart: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuite Apart\u003c\/em\u003e asks \"what about after survival?\" in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment--driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot--to allow some emotion to pass through, tenderness intact. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe action among forms of address moves across the sections from direct to readerly, to more distant, back to the last\/lost sequence, and ultimately into an intimate direct address, which builds up a reserve of trust adequate to collapse the distance of a cool operator. Mediated by grammatical invention, the collection enacts the making of an authentic place and self, reckoning with difficult truths (failures, omissions) to arrive at a state of peace having weathered some storms. It returns to a core and singular perspective, a knowing eye, that captures absurdity and tragedy, the absurdity of tragedy, to find--beyond vigilance--a balance between acceptance and bucking, which is perhaps another name for love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Krystal Languell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1629221422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629221427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Akron Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Krystal Languell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939409035519,"sku":"9781629221427","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5eb95a27-595c-48d2-a67c-d1de66dd2cef.jpg?v=1681441321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/quite-apart-krystal-languell-9781629221427","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}