{"product_id":"9780062412232","title":"The Regret Histories : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Regret Histories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Joshua Poteat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis powerful and provocative new installment of poetry is a recipient of the 2014 National Poetry Series Prize, as chosen by Campbell McGrath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe National Poetry Series’s long tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets delivers another outstanding collection of poetry by Joshua Poteat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an investigation of the haunted spaces where history collides with the modern southern American landscape, \u003cem\u003eThe Regret Histories \u003c\/em\u003eexplores themes of ruin and nostalgia, our relationship to a collective past, and the extraordinary indifference of time to memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Marie Howe, and Sherod Santos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Joshua Poteat’s Richmond is at once local and universal, sorrowful and redemptive, a landscape to set beside Paterson and Spoon River on the bookshelf and in the literary imagination.”\u003cbr\u003e“In Joshua Poteat’s \u003ci\u003eThe Regret Histories\u003c\/i\u003e, we perceive History and Nature observing us with a disregard that unsettles our humanity. But, as Poteat’s poems insist, the cyclical emptiness... will soon be refilled, if only by drips, with the obstinate weight of our hope and humanity.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Regret Histories\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than a book of wisdom…Joshua Poteat has written a book that will last not only because it is singular in its voice and originality, but because it bears truth, burdened and alive.”\u003cbr\u003e“Poteat imbeds in his language the task of memory at work. These poems act as a kind of echolocation, an attempt to conceive of a single life against the din of lives that came before and those to follow.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Regret Histories\u003c\/i\u003e tenderly and honestly—yet without consolation—locates its urgent personal grief and regret within the ongoing and haunting injustices and inequalities that constitute the history and cultural landscape of America itself.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062412232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41091640557774,"sku":"9780062412232","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062412232.jpg?v=1649131304","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062412232","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}