{"product_id":"reel-to-reel-9780226110639","title":"Reel to Reel","description":"\u003ci\u003eReel to Reel\u003c\/i\u003e, Alan Shapiro's twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, consciousness, and matter. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do we live fully and lovingly as conscious creatures in an unconscious universe with no ultimate purpose or destination beyond returning to the abyss that spawned us? Shapiro brings his humor, imaginative intensity, characteristic syntactical energy, and generous heart to bear on these ultimate mysteries. In ways few poets have done, he writes from a premodern, primal sense of wonder about our postmodern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2014\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 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226110639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pulitzer Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e has published eleven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eNight of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize, and \u003ci\u003eOld War\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Ambassador Book Award. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44945251991667,"sku":"9780226110639","price":39.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ad659c02-82ac-4127-bc52-e7dcbbffb78a.jpg?v=1778342143","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/reel-to-reel-9780226110639","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}