{"product_id":"it-is-if-i-speak-paperback","title":"It Is If I Speak - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Wenderoth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies \"It is if I speak that I will be destroyed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, \"Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses.\" His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, \"owing is all that really happens,\" and lives are shaped by the refusal to \"sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOE WENDEROTH, whose new work is published regularly in Triquarterly, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, and other journals, has captured the front cover of American Poetry Review, and continues to gather a following. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program, he is currently in the English Department at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. Author of Disfortune (Wesleyan, 1995) and a chapbook The Endearment (1999), excerpts of his Letters to Wendy's are accessible on-line at Nerve.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 83\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.98 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130435833991,"sku":"9780819563903","price":18.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d8840e960d1db4c1278a2403065f6ac1.webp?v=1732610791","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/it-is-if-i-speak-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}