{"product_id":"parallel-play-book-stephanie-burt-9781555974374","title":"Parallel Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,\u003cbr\u003e Though it was all they had taught you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --from \"Like a Wreck\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Consult any childhood development guide and you'll find the term \"parallel play\": when children under two are placed together, they'll play separately but won't interact. They are more fascinated with their immediate surroundings than with each other.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Stephen Burt's second collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eParallel Play\u003c\/i\u003e, describes lovers, friends, travelers, and revelers attempting lives dependent on each other but still pulled inevitably into preoccupations of their own self-awareness. When there are many obstacles--overeducation, narcissism, extended adolescence, nomadic existence--how can Americans crawl out of the nursery and coexist if they increasingly have to learn to do so as adults?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600509149457,"sku":"GOR010972455","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381774323985,"sku":"CIN1555974376G","price":4.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555974376.jpg?v=1751309541","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/parallel-play-book-stephanie-burt-9781555974374","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}