{"product_id":"something-has-to-happen-next-andrew-michael-roberts-9781587297946","title":"Something Has to Happen Next","description":"The poems in \u003ci\u003esomething has to happen next\u003c\/i\u003e, if given the chance, might peer down inquisitively from a great height; they speak of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of love, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorking with brevity and compression, Andrew Michael Roberts first imagines how small he can go with a poem and still maintain some sort of emotional or imagistic center. Then, released from this limitation, the rest of his playful, unexpected poems expand to fill a world with imagery, emotion, and sound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat Roberts calls \"simply a book of small poems\" grew out of his obsessions with time and catastrophe and love and abandonment--what is always possible, almost attained, but lost at the last minute. When something ends or when everything ends, something else must always happen next--what will it be, and who will be there to name and love and destroy it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Michael Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587297949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587297946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Oregon Book Awards - Finalist","brand":"Andrew Michael Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065723465983,"sku":"9781587297946","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c84457bb-b88d-4aa0-8575-ca04b00077ce.jpg?v=1768676833","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/something-has-to-happen-next-andrew-michael-roberts-9781587297946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}