{"product_id":"wideawake-field-9780374531300","title":"Wideawake Field","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chairs have come in \u003cbr\u003eand the crisp yellow thwock \u003cbr\u003eof the ball being hit \u003cbr\u003esays somehow, now that it's fall, \u003cbr\u003eI'm a memory of myself. \u003cbr\u003eMy whole old life--\u003cbr\u003eI mourn you sometimes \u003cbr\u003ein places you would have been\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. As a reporter's dispatches, they concern themselves with different forms of desolation: what it means to feel at home in wrecked places and then to experience loneliness and dislocation in the familiar. The collection arcs between internal and external worlds--the disappointment of returning, the guilt and thrill of departure, unexpected encounters in blighted places-- and, with ruthless observations etched in the sparest lines, the poems in \u003ci\u003eWideawake Field \u003c\/i\u003esharply and movingly navigate the poles of home and away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eliza Griswold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.57w x 0.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374531300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Griswold \u003c\/b\u003eis the recipient of the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism and is a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, where she is at work on a nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Parallel\u003c\/i\u003e, also to be published by FSG.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40722585092211,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_37c6b717-bdfc-4034-a7d7-b456d03023ef.jpg?v=1677164163","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/wideawake-field-9780374531300","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}