{"product_id":"the-rail-stop-at-wassaic-9781943826735","title":"The Rail Stop at Wassaic","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Levine has written that Don Barkin's work shows \"wonderful skill.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Rail Stop at Wassaic\u003c\/em\u003e bears out that assessment. Like the poet's previous book, \u003cem\u003eHouses\u003c\/em\u003e, it is \"both domestic and fierce, accessible and resonant, including many poems that have the audacity to follow traditional patterns of rhyme and meter.\" Barkin's earlier volume, \u003cem\u003eThat Dark Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, presented under the aegis of the Library of Congress. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarkin, Don:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Don Barkin has published poems in Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, the North American Review, Harvard Magazine, The Louisville Review, Commonweal, and other journals. A full-length collection of his poems, That Dark Lake, published by Antrim House in 2009, was a finalist for the Connecticut Center for the Book's Poetry Book of the Year award. Houses, New and Selected Poems, was published by Antrim House in 2017. Two chapbooks, The Caretakers and The Persistent, were published by Finishing Line Press. He has twice been awarded artist grants by the State of Connecticut. He is a former newspaper reporter and was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He has taught writing at Yale, Wesleyan, and Connecticut College. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife, Maggie, and his daughter, Eve.","brand":"Antrim House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929463951634,"sku":"9781943826735","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e07a0f80-43da-4040-b4aa-eaaba8f78235.jpg?v=1739042659","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rail-stop-at-wassaic-9781943826735","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}