{"product_id":"proust-book-richard-bales-9780729303804","title":"Proust","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Stadiums\u003c\/i\u003e is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e You were supposed to find God here \/ the signs said. In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small--of a city, of a family, of a shirt--is unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement: a field lit like the heart \/ of the night, black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A map bleached \/ pale by time and weather--and an engrossing urban pastoral (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)--\u003ci\u003eNorth American Stadiums\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the places we inhabit and how those places, in turn, shape us.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49584907059473,"sku":"GOR005565315","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0729303802.jpg?v=1750848238","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/proust-book-richard-bales-9780729303804","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}