{"product_id":"9780811230896","title":"Little Elegies for Sister Satan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShaped by the poet's long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Elegies for Sister Satan\u003c\/em\u003e presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, \"the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations\" (citation for The Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (\u003cem\u003epoetry was dead again \/ they said again\u003c\/em\u003e), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: \"When I think of 'possible worlds,' I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the light of day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eperhaps all of this\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewill make sense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut have we come this far,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ecome this close to death,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ejust to make sense?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370126512189,"sku":"9780811230896","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780811230896_p0.jpg?v=1771580372","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780811230896","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}