{"product_id":"monograph-poems-paperback","title":"Monograph: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimeon Berry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDenise Duhamel\u003c\/b\u003e (Selected by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage's intellectual, sexual, and domestic lives. Invoking Raymond Chandler, Pythagoras, Joan Didion, and Virginia Woolf as presiding spirits, Simeon Berry curates the negative space of each wry tableau, destabilizing the high seriousness of every lyric aside and slipping quantum uncertainty into the stark lineaments of loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSIMEON BERRY has been an associate editor for \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters. His first book, \u003ci\u003eAmpersand Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2013 National Poetry Series. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130379374727,"sku":"9780820348452","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b9476520f71eb009cb5dc73bc0e6fa9a.webp?v=1732610308","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/monograph-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}