{"product_id":"dreamburgh-pennsylvania-paperback","title":"Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Lawless\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I can't figure out about Gregory Lawless's new collection of poems, Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania, is how he did it. This is a book about family, about sorrow and love and joy and people and fun. It's a community book. A book about community. You open this book, to any poem, and are faced with this question: How do I put it down? Because you can feel and see yourself in the work. Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania is hard to put down. Honestly, I don't know if this place exists in the real world but Lawless is such a tremendous poet that it's difficult to think that it doesn't. Actually, it doesn't matter. Somewhere in that space between a dream and not-a-dream is the place where these poems take root, \"where the buses are powered \/ by the collective goodwill \/ of the people the litter \/ is beautiful most everyone recycles \/ and we think about death \/ only once in a great while.\" I couldn't put this book down. You won't be able to put it down either. --Matthew Lippman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDreamburgh, Pennsylvania is a world both hilarious and heartbreaking, familiar and utterly new. Here, we meditate upon family, mortality, agency; we come to recognize the vivid and the absurd as harbingers of truth. Here, we are human, which is bewildering and beautiful; we would not trade places with the angels, \"bored to death by everything \/ they understand.\" \"I notice \/ all the birds and things not noticing me, \/\/ but I'm too half brokenhearted not \/ to notice them back,\" writes Lawless, and we are grateful that he notices and that he shares Dreamsburgh's terror and tenderness with us. --Dora Malech\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaciturn, hilarious, strange and true -- Gregory Lawless's poems are funny like Jack Handey and big-hearted like Denis Johnson. I'd trust no one else to take me to Dreamburgh and steer me through the traffic. --Jack Christian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42171104428167,"sku":"9781935716457","price":32.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c46d7c29551181d8a623eb9f803c35f1.webp?v=1733353129","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dreamburgh-pennsylvania-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}