{"product_id":"whats-wrong-gregg-friedberg-9781639801947","title":"What's Wrong","description":"To read the poems in Gregg Friedberg's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWHAT'S WRONG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is to discover a voice\u003cbr\u003eunlike any other in its dizzying ability to address serious matters-love, \u003cbr\u003edesire, loss, belief and radical un-belief, to name a few-surprisingly, \u003cbr\u003ewith joyous invention and indefatigable wit. The supreme ironist who is\u003cbr\u003ethe speaker of these poems consoles his tormented soul handily with verbal\u003cbr\u003ewizardry. Grief, he says, is \"a mediocrity\" so he dresses it up and makes\u003cbr\u003ea party of it all. His is a dark vision, to be sure, but in that darkness\u003cbr\u003ethere is no dearth of colorful illumination to pick up our spirits.\u003cbr\u003e-PegBoyers, executive editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalmagundi, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Album, To Forget\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVenice, Honey with Tobacco, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eHard Bread\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRarely has formality of language achieved such intimacy-in these linked\u003cbr\u003epoems-the questing speaker, in reaching towards the other, begins to\u003cbr\u003eknow himself. \"Can I infallibly distinguish the artificial from the\u003cbr\u003enatural?\" Indeed! Yet nothing surpasses the beauty of the language, its\u003cbr\u003emusic, its dance on the page, its lush sensuality.\u003cbr\u003e-Lee Gould, editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Presa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregg Friedberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639801944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639801947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Gregg Friedberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485730746623,"sku":"9781639801947","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e129986-acbc-4d1d-b99e-fdcc41cfd40f.jpg?v=1778051198","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whats-wrong-gregg-friedberg-9781639801947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}