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They have coalesced out of the pitch and grime and salt suspended  within that atmospheric gloom. Their skin  is colorless below. But when exposed  to air, they start to radiate bright green, then, soon, a siren red that wails: I'm dead.  The meat inside, though, is as white as teeth,  or the hard-boiled egg that comes to mind  when one cracks that crisp shell and digs beneath. Caress the toothy claw-edge of its pincer  and you will know the single, simple thought  that populates its mind. 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In between, Troy Jollimore’s distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many center on films, from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, while another is an elegy for Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist for the cult rock band The Tragically Hip. Other poems address various forms of political insanity, from the Kennedy assassination to today’s active shooter drills, and philosophical ideas, from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s musings on beauty to John D. Rockefeller’s thoughts on the relation between roses and capitalist ethics. The book’s longest poem, “American Beauty,” returns repeatedly to the film of that name, but ultimately becomes a meditation on the Western history of making and looking, and—like many of the book’s poems—an elegy for lost things.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739838554385,"sku":"NGR9780691218823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361210011921,"sku":"CIN069121882XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005724885265,"sku":"NIN9780691218823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52385241530641,"sku":"GOR014510993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/069121882X.jpg?v=1750848014"},{"product_id":"love-s-vision-book-troy-jollimore-9780691148724","title":"Love's Vision","description":"Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. 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Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as \"a snappy, entertaining book,\" and led the San Francisco Chronicle to call him \"a new and exciting voice in American poetry.\" And his critically acclaimed second collection expanded his reputation for poems that often take a playful approach to philosophical issues. While the poems in Syllabus of Errors share recognizable concerns with those of Jollimore's first two books, readers will also find a voice that has grown more urgent, more vulnerable, and more sensitive to both the inevitability of tragedy and the possibility of renewal. Poems such as \"Ache and Echo,\" \"The Black-Capped Chickadees of Martha's Vineyard,\" and \"When You Lift the Avocado to Your Mouth\" explore loss, regret, and the nature of beauty, while the culminating long poem, \"Vertigo,\" is an elegy for a lost friend as well as a fantasia on death, repetition, and transcendence (not to mention the poet's favorite Hitchcock film). Ingeniously organized into sections that act as reflections on six quotations about birdsong, these poems are themselves an answer to the question the poet asks in \"On Birdsong\": \"What would we say to the cardinal or jay, \/ given wings that could mimic their velocities?\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50291665699089,"sku":"CIN0691167680G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52736233046289,"sku":"NIN9780691167688","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53246093885713,"sku":"GOR014829175","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691167680.jpg?v=1751168330"},{"product_id":"tom-thomson-in-purgatory-book-troy-jollimore-9780971904057","title":"Tom Thomson in Purgatory","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376297709841,"sku":"CIN0971904057VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325226221841,"sku":"CIN0971904057G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971904057.jpg?v=1750787926"},{"product_id":"virtue-of-loyalty-book-troy-jollimore-9780197612651","title":"The Virtue of Loyalty","description":"Loyalty is a highly contested virtue. 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