{"product_id":"regular-haunts-new-and-previous-poems-paperback","title":"Regular Haunts: New and Previous Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerald Costanzo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTed Kooser\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Costanzo evokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now--in the present--is forced to live with diminished experience. He mourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be found but where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. \u003cem\u003eRegular Haunts\u003c\/em\u003e is a retrospective collection of Costanzo's work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Costanzo\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight collections of poems, including \u003ci\u003eBadlands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Aviary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGreat Disguise\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of six anthologies of poetry. He is the recipient of the Devins Award for Poetry and two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, and two Pushcart Prizes. A graduate of Harvard University and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, he lives in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and Nehalem, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117334696071,"sku":"9781496205865","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c423f57be26564a0674f6a309f2f54f2.webp?v=1732523727","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/regular-haunts-new-and-previous-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}