{"product_id":"zoo-at-night-susan-gubernat-9781496202055","title":"Zoo at Night","description":"Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat's \u003ci\u003eThe Zoo at Night\u003c\/i\u003e reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as \"night thoughts\" resembling nocturnes, in which \"a bit of light leaks in.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Both experimental and classic, Gubernat's poems combine formal and free verse elements. A (mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequence seeks to recall the world of a pre-digital childhood when physical objects--tactile, mechanical--took on totemic import and magical significance. Other poems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the \"thingness\" of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craft and exits with feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Gubernat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496202058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496202055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Susan Gubernat","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43936366657791,"sku":"9781496202055","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e1525004-6ee5-45a1-a0af-19cf55cbfb69.jpg?v=1681425148","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zoo-at-night-susan-gubernat-9781496202055","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}