{"product_id":"property-paperback-2","title":"Property - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Agoos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking within the frame of her native New England, Julie Agoos positions herself in her new book, \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e, less as a first-person lyric speaker than as an acute listener to the layered history of small and large violences which ignite repeatedly in American life. Structured as a progression of poems which invoke the \"genres\" of oral history, gossip, legal transcript, and diary writing, \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e arrives, in the long poem \"Deposition,\" at the story of a particular, explosive, and horrific local crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e's subject is historical and political: as she experiments from her unique lyric perspective with multiple ways of \"telling\"and explores through dramatic superimposition how the past inscribes and disturbs the present, Agoos interrogates our homegrown social and racial divides, and focuses emphatically on the ethics of living in a real and present world of ubiquitous war. Her images of natural beauty join a plain style derived from the rhythms of vernacular speech to challenge the complacenciesand consequences of her own American identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Boston in 1956, \u003cb\u003eJulie Agoos\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003eAbove the Land\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale University Press, 1987) and \u003ci\u003eCalendar Year\u003c\/i\u003e (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1996). She taught for eight years as a lecturer in the creative writing program at Princeton University, and, since 1994, in the English department and MFA program in poetry at Brooklyn College\/CUNY, where she is an associate professor. She lives in Nyack, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie Agoos is the author of two previous collections of poetry. She received a BA from Harvard University and an MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University. She taught for eight years as a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and is now an Associate professor at Brooklyn College\/CUNY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165403549831,"sku":"9781931337373","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e1b48ca339b1a5ddfd381e83e348881c.webp?v=1733313324","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/property-paperback-2","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}