{"product_id":"we-dont-know-we-dont-nick-lantz-9781555975524","title":"We Don't Know We Don't Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2008 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for Poetry, Nick Lantz's poems introduce a startling new voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from a dodging statement from former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, \u003ci\u003eWe Don't Know We Don't Know \u003c\/i\u003eassesses what it means to claim new knowledge within a culture that professes to know everything already. The result is a poetry that upends the deeply and dangerously assumed concepts of such a culture--that new knowledge is always better knowledge, that history is a steady progress, that humans are in control of the natural order. Nick Lantz's poems hurtle through time from ancient theories of physics to the CIA training manual for the practice of torture, from the history of the question mark to the would-be masterpieces left incomplete by the deaths of Leonardo da Vinci, Nikolai Gogol, Bruce Lee, and Jimi Hendrix. Selected by Linda Gregerson for the esteemed Bakeless Prize for Poetry, We Don't Know We Don't\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Lantz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555975526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555975524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/25\/2010 pg. 98","brand":"Nick Lantz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980085428479,"sku":"9781555975524","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ee3aec5-6247-4963-8567-5db721d60c0c.jpg?v=1683248303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-dont-know-we-dont-nick-lantz-9781555975524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}