{"product_id":"the-game-of-boxes-poems-9781555976200","title":"The Game of Boxes: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2012 James Laughlin Award*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose \"poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Edward Hirsch, \u003c\/i\u003e The Washington Post\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryone asks us what we're afraid of\u003cbr\u003ebut children aren't supposed to say.\u003cbr\u003eWe could put loneliness on the list.\u003cbr\u003eWe could put the list on the list, its infinity.\u003cbr\u003eWe could put infinity down.\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Fields of No One to Ask\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Catherine Barnett's \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, love stutters its way in and out of both family and erotic bonds. Whittled down to song and fragments of story, these poems teeter at the edge of dread. A gang of unchaperoned children, grappling with blame and forgiveness, speak with tenderness and disdain about \"the mothers\" and \"the fathers,\" absent figures they seek in \"the faces of clouds\" and in the cars that pass by. Other poems investigate the force of maternal love and its at-times misguided ferocities. The final poem, a long sequence of nocturnes, eschews almost everything but the ghostly erotic. These are bodies at the edge of experience, watchful and defamiliarized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Barnett\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a previous poetry book, \u003ci\u003eInto Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced.\u003c\/i\u003e She has received a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855463649554,"sku":"9781555976200","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8a1f2066-bf3c-4292-8414-3eb871e1bee5.jpg?v=1737481034","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-game-of-boxes-poems-9781555976200","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}