{"product_id":"for-the-love-of-endings-paperback","title":"For the Love of Endings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Purkert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert's debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poems examine \"the gap \/ between the world \u0026amp; how \/ people paint it: dark, distant, there \/ for the taking.\" He makes us look at our disintegrating world head on and see what we've done to it, and what it has done to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBEN PURKERT teaches creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His poems and essays have appeared in Agni, Boston Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165110112391,"sku":"9781945588051","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b730450c5544043eeaea10d748c3acd0.webp?v=1733311026","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/for-the-love-of-endings-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}