{"product_id":"9781555976484","title":"The Year of What Now : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Year of What Now\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Brian Russell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDebut poetry by Brian Russell, winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eHarriet, \u003c\/i\u003ethe blog of the Poetry Foundation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year of what now\u003cbr\u003eAre we the pure products   and what\u003cbr\u003eDoes that even mean   pure   isn't it\u003cbr\u003eObvious   we are each our own culture\u003cbr\u003eAlive with the virus that's waiting\u003cbr\u003eTo unmake us.\u003cbr\u003e                        —from \"The Year of What Now\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Year of What Now\u003c\/i\u003e is not a book of poems about cancer. It's not a book that wears its heart on its sleeve. It doesn't parade the autobiographical in your face, though the conventions seem at first to be autobiography. It's not a cry \u003ci\u003ein extremis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ede profundis\u003c\/i\u003e, etc. It's more casual, more canny, more casually well-made, more philosophically oriented . . . This book seems to me to represent a way forward for other young poets in its wide engagement with the world, in its unabashed embrace of the personal, and its equally galvanizing skepticism about the limits of subjective speech. At its deepest level, it embodies the desire to establish true sequences of pain from the cellular level to the most abstract operations of culture, technology, and possible worlds of the spirit.\" —Tom Sleigh, Bakeless Prize judge, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The writing is nuanced, full of feeling. . . . Do we read, [Russell] is asking, to be reassured, or to be drawn into an unknown territory, where we are what we imagine? \u003ci\u003eThe Year of What Now \u003c\/i\u003eleaves it up to us.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dynamically poignant. . . . [Russell's] poetry endeavors to understand the world in complicated and sophisticated ways.” —\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Personal, but never cloying, Russell's poems use anecdotes and crisp line breaks to craft a unified collection that doesn't feel limited in scope.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[M]y heart beat fast with the first poem and through to the last. . . . Although we know that trillions of years from now the stars will burn out, nothing at this time seems more important than Brian Russell's take on death.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book seems to me to represent a way forward for other young poets in its wide engagement with the world, in its unabashed embrace of the personal, and its equally galvanizing skepticism about the limits of subjective speech. At its deepest level, it embodies the desire to establish true sequences of pain from the cellular level to the most abstract operations of culture, technology, and possible worlds of the spirit.” —\u003ci\u003eTom Sleigh, Bakeless Prize judge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555976484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594810699982,"sku":"9781555976484","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_019147ea-1ddc-4a47-80e8-8218f4301197.jpg?v=1637818841","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555976484","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}