{"product_id":"last-two-seconds-book-mary-jo-bang-9781555977047","title":"The Last Two Seconds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe eagerly awaited new poetry collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe were told that the cloud cover was a blanket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eabout to settle into the shape of the present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewhich, if we wanted to imagine it\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eas a person, would undoubtedly look startled--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eas after a verbal berating\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eor in advance of a light pistol whipping.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe camera came and went, came and went,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003elike a masked man trying to light a too-damp fuse.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe crew was acting like a litter of mimics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003etrying to make a killing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnything to fill the vacuum of time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --from \"The Doomsday Clock\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Two Seconds\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing confrontation with time--our experience of it as measured out by our perceptions, our lives, and our machines. In these poems, full of vivid imagery and imaginative logic, Mary Jo Bang captures the difficulties inherent in being human in the twenty-first century, when we set our watches by nuclear disasters, species collapse, pollution, mounting inequalities, warring nations, and our own mortality. This is brilliant and profound work by an essential poet of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49871936258321,"sku":"CIN1555977049G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50000681926929,"sku":"CIN1555977049VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555977049.jpg?v=1751056164","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/last-two-seconds-buch-mary-jo-bang-9781555977047","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}