{"product_id":"august-september-october-9781968507008","title":"August, September, October","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAugust, September, October\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep, vulnerable meditation on fatherhood, time passing, and survival in a world reshaped by crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e In two long, diaristic poems and a constellation of lyrical reflections that accrue into a day book of sorts, this collection traces the daily experiences of a poet--someone very much, though not exactly, like Craig Morgan Teicher--through the emotional and existential terrain of caregiving during the COVID-19 lockdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem, \"August September October,\" the speaker tends to his medically fragile son during a harrowing stretch of illness and hospitalization while pondering the deathbed book of Irish poet Ciaran Carson. The second extended poem, \"Midsummer Days,\" takes off from Bernadette Mayer's classic Midwinter Day, following the speaker as he fails to write a memoir and climbs his way back to poetry and toward faith in a world overwhelmed by upheaval. Surrounding these central poems are shorter poems that meditate on grim games, the music of Sonny Rollins, memories of being a young writer, the tyranny of TV screens, and the insane politics of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAugust, September, October\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profoundly human snapshot of a family navigating disability, grief, and fleeting hope, all while trying to keep the imagination alive in an age of catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Morgan Teicher\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of poems: \u003ci\u003eAugust, September, October\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2026);\u003ci\u003e Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2021), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize;\u003ci\u003e The Trembling Answers \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA, 2017), winner of the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize;\u003ci\u003e To Keep Love Blurry \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA, 2012); and \u003ci\u003eBrenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e (CLP, 2007), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry and more. He lives in West Orange, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197389598994,"sku":"9781968507008","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18d6124c-7e44-477c-9ba5-d6ba3280f729.jpg?v=1776166347","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/august-september-october-9781968507008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}