{"product_id":"salesman-of-the-century-book-ron-popeil-9780385313780","title":"Salesman of the Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiet \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis time the migraine came with a vision\u003cbr\u003e bathed in night sweat: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I was sitting on the Eames chair, \u003cbr\u003e your man's body on my lap, legs \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and arms white as casein draped over\u003cbr\u003e mine, spilling onto the cassock, new sores \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e on your legs, dried blood\u003cbr\u003e on your feet and hands, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e from your chalk mouth\u003cbr\u003e the words \u003ci\u003eforgive me, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom mine, the impossible\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eno\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHard Bread\u003c\/i\u003e, Peg Boyers's debut poetry collection, with verse spoken in the imagined voice of the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, was widely praised for its inspired ventriloquism and its brilliant lyricism. In \u003ci\u003eHoney with Tobacco\u003c\/i\u003e, Boyers's own intensely personal voice emerges in three strikingly distinctive variants. The first part of the book is the most explicitly autobiographical, bringing together poems that explore the poet's Cuban American experience and a childhood marked by travel, the tropics, and varieties of disenchantment. The middle sequence of poems concerns a mother, a father, and a son, a postmodern holy family whose ordeals are evoked in a terse, terrifying narrative. In familiar tableaux drawn from the Bible that have inspired great works of art-the Annunciation, the Pieta, and Judgment Day-Boyers explores what it means in contemporary America to be blessed among women and whether and how art can contain grief. The final section of the book confronts age, desire, and regret in a series of personal poems that plumb baser human instincts and the speakers' determination to dwell in darkness, when necessary, without abandoning the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHard Bread\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA great achievement of poetic voice . . . . It's absolutely clear what these poems are 'about, ' and they are unapologetic in their devotion to subject, clarity, precision, and accessibility.-Steven Cramer, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578330882321,"sku":"GOR003057651","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49607848821009,"sku":"GOR002512982","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50307457450257,"sku":"CIN0385313780G","price":4.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50353336058129,"sku":"CIN0385313780A","price":4.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51381996716305,"sku":"CIN0385313780VG","price":5.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385313780.jpg?v=1750974971","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/salesman-of-the-century-book-ron-popeil-9780385313780","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}