{"product_id":"under-the-sign-ann-lauterbach-9780143124184","title":"Under the Sign","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection from the author of \u003ci\u003eOr To Begin Again\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnn Lauterbach is one of America's most innovative and provocative poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous and intellectually charged poems. In this, her ninth book of poems, Lauterbach pursues longstanding inquiries into how language forms and informs our understanding of the relation between empirical observation and subjective response; worldly attachment and inwardness; the given and the chosen. The poems set out not so much to find cogent resolutions to these fluid dyads as to open them to the fact of unknowing that is at the core of all human curiosity and desire. A central prose section tracks along a meditative edge, engaging the risky task of opening the mind to the limits of apprehension; the final section evokes, in the figure of the instructor, the essential contemporary question of how information becomes knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Lauterbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143124188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143124184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Ann Lauterbach","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086384902399,"sku":"9780143124184","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b438bd5-97c2-4e4c-a013-afe23f78eb70.jpg?v=1769094371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/under-the-sign-ann-lauterbach-9780143124184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}