{"product_id":"the-city-our-city-9781571314451","title":"The City, Our City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA breakout collection that showcases the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on “the City”—an unnamed, crowded place filled with gunmen, lovers, children, neighbors, builders, soldiers, professors, bouncers, and widowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, Wayne Miller presents a city laden with “kisses in doorways, weapons \/ and sculptures, concerts \/ and fistfights, sex toys and votives, \/ engines and metaphors.” And yet the City, both unidentifiable and readily familiar, is also a place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city—past, present, and future—ring out with urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems—in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful—give hum to our modern experience, to all those caught up in the City’s immensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wayne Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284503998715,"sku":"9781571314451","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571314451_67c21017-8f27-4393-a64d-7ca181370dfa.jpg?v=1772484920","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-city-our-city-9781571314451","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}