{"product_id":"zero-is-a-number-9798888384152","title":"Zero Is a Number","description":"Set in crowded homes, pool-halls, and hospitals, the poems in \u003cem\u003eZero Is a Number\u003c\/em\u003e are often tender, sometimes infused with violence, and relentlessly searching for meaning among stapled thumbs, snake tattoos, and gasoline baths. This propulsive pursuit of truth-words rushing across the pages in a passionate excavation-made me sit up straighter. Reading Michael Hammerle is like dreaming yourself into somebody else's vehement, breakneck, ardent life.\u003cstrong\u003e-Rachel Pastan \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eIn the Field.\u003c\/em\u003e Winner of the Science + Literature award from the National Book Foundation in 2022\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hammerle's \u003cem\u003eZero Is A Number \u003c\/em\u003eis a poetry collection conveying snapshots of a family history-a family history full of fire, and Hammerle threads a nostalgic sentiment of a calm torment throughout these poems as he reveals a tiny splinter of the world, mixing and mashing video games with tattoos and skating rinks and wrenches and nails and sibling fights. There are variations of a household-a cracked image for each memory and a family member for each cracked image, as if we're standing in the front yard and facing a home under the evening sun with our eyes barely open, squinting perhaps, as we try to make sense of the complications that come with those we love and remember. A door opened-indeed, into a living room of a family in search of each other's hands. \u003cem\u003eZero Is A Number\u003c\/em\u003e creates tangible ghosts and hazy realities, and it's through these flashes and flickers of light, a marvelous poetry collection hums before us.\u003cstrong\u003e-Shome Dasgupta\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eIron Oxide\u003c\/em\u003e and several other books\u003cbr\u003eIf we're lucky, we live long enough to fix the math. \u003cem\u003eZero Is a Number\u003c\/em\u003e allows us to go back to the board, and if not to erase the mistakes, then to at least stare at them again. In poem after startling poem, Michael Hammerle\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003elooks back with a searing honesty at a life you'll have to read to believe. There are no symbols here. There's just the burn of the Florida sun, a staple stuck in child's hand, stepfathers troubled with the cost of love, and grandparents who would press their last nickel into your palm. There are elegies. There is plenty of beauty. Maybe all we ask of poetry is that it tell us something we can't forget, and \u003cem\u003eZero Is a Number \u003c\/em\u003edoes just that.\u003cstrong\u003e-Jack Heflin\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eLocal Hope\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Hammerle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888384152\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43130420297843,"sku":"9.79889E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_0bec0e3a-7f5b-43bd-946b-df0899670106.jpg?v=1749819986","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/zero-is-a-number-9798888384152","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}