{"product_id":"scorpio-rising-richard-katrovas-9780887485343","title":"Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems","description":"Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where \"the protean human heart\/is nature's crime against us.\" Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later poems meditates upon his own American identity as he raises bi-cultural, bilingual daughters. Katrovas's formal verse has an edge we do not usually associate with traditionally formal poetry. Understanding that all gendered identity is a construction, Katrovas explores, as few lyric poets have, the linguistic and emotional contours of \"masculinity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Katrovas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887485340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887485343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carnegie-Mellon University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Richard Katrovas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072871854335,"sku":"9780887485343","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5541013-14f6-4bbc-81fc-c1d89c5a83da.jpg?v=1685444431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scorpio-rising-richard-katrovas-9780887485343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}