{"product_id":"fever-of-unknown-origin-poems-9780593535721","title":"Fever of Unknown Origin: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of profound and piercing poems from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize about navigating the modern world in search of beauty that will endure\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFever of Unknown Origin \u003c\/i\u003eopens at a remote crossroads, where the speaker considers the intersection of history, beauty, and destruction: \"the past \/ is paper \/ and the present, a match . . .\" What follows is an urgent tour of landscapes--environmental, political, and personal--that reframes our perception of modern America and leads the reader into \"An empire of rags and photons\" where we must look to the past to clarify our futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sublime wit and a Whitmanian eye, McGrath delivers a stunning collection of warnings, love letters, and praise songs for all that manages to weather the perennial pressures of time: frog ponds, stadium rubble, and the endless cycle of seasons, which usher us deeper into an era we cannot yet know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCAMPBELL McGRATH is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eNouns \u0026amp; Verbs: New and Selected Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eXX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. His writing has been recognized with a MacArthur Foundation \"Genius Award,\" a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He lives with his wife in Miami Beach, and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680322097426,"sku":"9780593535721","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_22ebad6d-1654-41a3-9b30-a09790d1b871.jpg?v=1734904988","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fever-of-unknown-origin-poems-9780593535721","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}