{"product_id":"the-au-revoir-of-an-frank-iosue-9781627875509","title":"The Au Revoir Of An Enormous Us: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poem is an arena of apprehensions and associations; a \"psychic ecosystem\" unto itself, bounded, artificed and amplified through craft and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperience, emotion, imagination, intellect and artistry -- in a unique, uneasy marriage between what's thought and what's felt -- cohabitate on the page, expressly for the end of approximating (and, hopefully, achieving) the most resonant and illimitable expression of a poetic \"reality\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my poems, I seek to create experiences that destabilize and scavenge ordinary perception, and transform the \"apparent\" into epiphanies of revelation and realization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the inventory of my life's poetic journey. The joys, sorrows, memories, and reveries; the people and places, the histories, and the voyages of imagination that populate these pages, form my testament to a world, whose presences, and absences, have accompanied me, and formed the fragile scaffolding for the little empire of my existence -- an intensely-felt world of a self, of an I, intimately environed and occupied by a brilliant otherness of those, and them, and it and you . . . An Enormous Us \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Iosue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1627875506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781627875509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wheatmark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d","brand":"Frank Iosue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939387441407,"sku":"9781627875509","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2e674069-e6cf-417b-bcab-faae6dcaa5bb.jpg?v=1681441193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-au-revoir-of-an-frank-iosue-9781627875509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}