{"product_id":"dog-language-9781556592317","title":"Dog Language","description":"Chase Twichell follows these rules when writing poems: \"Tell the truth. No decoration. Remember death.\" In an age when individual identity is questioned, medicated, and revised, the poems in \u003ci\u003eDog Language\u003c\/i\u003e address the question \"What is the self?\" Following the line of human development, Twichell confronts memory and mortality and asks what, if anything, survives. She writes, \"poetry is not window-cleaning. \/ It breaks the glass.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChase Twichell is the author of five books of poetry and the best-selling Practice of Poetry. She is the founding editor of Ausable Press and lives in rural New York, with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855466696978,"sku":"9781556592317","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8d89c8df-97d5-4a5e-b22a-4687c2a6c339.jpg?v=1737481193","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dog-language-9781556592317","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}