{"product_id":"9781644450420","title":"God of Nothingness : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGod of Nothingness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mark Wunderlich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magnificent book of hope and resolve written out of profound losses, by award-winning poet Mark Wunderlich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGod of Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e is a folkloric investigation into death and its resounding implications on our humanity and significance.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Arkansas International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[God of Nothingness is] Mark Wunderlich’s . . . best collection of poems. . . . He makes lines as warm and clean as the sunlit pine floors upon which his cat napped.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Commonweal \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with its directness, humor, and pathos.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wunderlich . . . strikes a note of elegiac unease [in \u003ci\u003eGod of Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e]. . . . The poem ‘My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer,’ as chilling as its title, owes much of its power to the poet’s ability to orchestrate a suspensefully blended tone of dread and desire.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with \u003ci\u003eThe God of Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e, which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic \u003ci\u003esomethingness.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cb\u003e—Diane Seuss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mark Wunderlich’s poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. . . . Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. \u003ci\u003eGod of Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves.”\u003cb\u003e—Ada Limón\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781644450420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40804734795982,"sku":"9781644450420","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_ccd4af76-8d4e-4622-82b9-356f2b46d5ed.jpg?v=1642579858","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781644450420","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}