{"product_id":"disfortune-9780819512260","title":"Disfortune","description":"\u003cb\u003eWenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein the talking-singing, the whole talking-\/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel. Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with the unoriginal\/oblivion, with the contrived delicacy\/of what is emptied and kept. Joe Wenderoth sees fortune as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from disfortune, from the need Just to sing the song that's kept you\/quiet\/all this time. This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Wenderoth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819512260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOE WENDEROTH grew up near Baltimore. He graduated with a B.A. in English\/Creative Writing from Loyola College in Baltimore, attended the graduate Creative Writing program at New York University, then transferred to and received an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. To pay for food, shelter, and music, he has done and continues to do what he has to do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40589130137715,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_34fcd033-92e7-4768-a4d7-08acd018f14c.jpg?v=1668783853","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/disfortune-9780819512260","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}