{"product_id":"white-spaces-selected-poems-and-early-prose-9780811229432","title":"White Spaces: Selected Poems and Early Prose","description":"\u003cem\u003eWhite Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the poetry and prose of Paul Auster from various small-press books issued throughout the seventies. These early poetic works are crucial for understanding the evolution of Auster's writing. Taut, lyrical, and always informed by a powerful and subtle music, his poems begin with basics--a swallow's egg, stones, roots, thistle, \"the glacial rose\"--and push language to the breaking point. As Robert Creeley wrote, \"The enduring power of these early poems is their moving address to a world all too elusive, too fragmented, and too bitterly transient.\" Auster's poems are grounded in a physical utterance that is at once an exploration of the mind and of the world. This collection begins with compact verse fragments from Spokes (originally published in Poetry, 1971) and goes through Auster's marvelous later collections including \u003cem\u003eWall Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (The Figures, 1976), \u003cem\u003eFacing the Music\u003c\/em\u003e (Parenthese, 1979), and \u003cem\u003eWhite Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e (Station Hill, 1980).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuster, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including \u003cem\u003e4321\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCity of Glass\u003c\/em\u003e. New Directions publishes his \u003cem\u003eRed Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarmé's \u003cem\u003eA Tomb for Anatole\u003c\/em\u003e and Philippe Petit's \u003cem\u003eOn the High Wire\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523794604306,"sku":"9780811229432","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb48972f-e32a-4b92-a6ab-453e5c42c8f0.jpg?v=1731168659","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-spaces-selected-poems-and-early-prose-9780811229432","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}