{"product_id":"earthling-poems-9780393353433","title":"Earthling: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarthling is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at his little patch of earth and at the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Beginning with the death of the earthling's mother and ending with a confrontation with his own mortality, the poems within \u003cem\u003eEarthling\u003c\/em\u003e resist complaint or agitation. In them, the real and the imagined, the material and the allegorical, intersect at shifting angles and provide fresh perspectives and lasting consolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLongenbach, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJames Longenbach\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of six books of poems--including \u003cem\u003eEarthling\u003c\/em\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award--and eight books of prose. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. The recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors, he lives in Rochester, New York.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324044316946,"sku":"9780393353433","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_99d51a11-5c92-4b61-8c04-ab47a38fee41.jpg?v=1727664918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/earthling-poems-9780393353433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}