{"product_id":"it-is-if-i-speak-9780819563903","title":"It Is If I Speak","description":"\u003cb\u003eNew poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies \"It is if I speak that I will be destroyed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, \"Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses.\" His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, \"owing is all that really happens,\" and lives are shaped by the refusal to \"sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle.\"\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 03\/17\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819563903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2000 pg. 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2000 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOE WENDEROTH, whose new work is published regularly in Triquarterly, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, and other journals, has captured the front cover of American Poetry Review, and continues to gather a following. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program, he is currently in the English Department at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. Author of Disfortune (Wesleyan, 1995) and a chapbook The Endearment (1999), excerpts of his Letters to Wendy's are accessible on-line at Nerve.com\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":40768007864435,"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_3d553e4c-f209-4599-9863-9648cc91f32c.jpg?v=1679664757","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/it-is-if-i-speak-9780819563903","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}