{"title":"Michael Teig","description":"Michael Teig’s first collection of poetry \u003cem\u003eBig Back Yard \u003c\/em\u003e(BOA, 2004), was awarded the inaugural A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, \u003cem\u003eThere’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by BOA in 2013. Teig is the co-founder of the literary magazine \u003cem\u003ejubilat\u003c\/em\u003e, and works as a freelance writer and editor in Northampton, MA.","products":[{"product_id":"big-back-yard","title":"Big Back Yard","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Teig's \u003cem\u003eBig Back Yard\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the inaugural A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, chosen by award-winning poet and fiction writer Stephen Dobyns. Teig's poems display his ability to create surprising metaphors and images. These are integrated seamlessly into startlingly original poems, which, though often difficult, aren't inaccessible. \"With Teig I could never calculate the poem's direction,\" Dobyns writes in his Foreword. \"Yet where the poem wound up . . . felt exactly right, while the ride itself, the reading experience, gave great pleasure.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSince We've Hardly Met, All This Waving Is A Poor Goodbye\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the neighbor girl emerged\u003cbr\u003ecalling, Blackberry, Blackberry, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eit was late enough the traffic lights\u003cbr\u003ewere just repeating themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomeone left the crickets on. \u003cbr\u003eThe field powdered in cobweb. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI thought she was growing beautiful out there \u003cbr\u003eand beyond hope. Already we are dancing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein the Versailles Ballroom at the Holiday Inn.\u003cbr\u003eI promise if we don't need food,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe don't have to get dressed all day. \u003cbr\u003eI can make a small boat with my hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418202885,"sku":"9781929918379","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BIG_BACK_YARD.jpg?v=1527683184"},{"product_id":"theres-a-box-in-the-garage-you-can-beat-with-a-stick","title":"There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMichael Teig’s long-awaited second collection is the perfect poetry companion: witty, intriguing, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eself-effacing as it picks up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life. As Stephen Dobyns wrote, Teig’s poems “have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize once again why we love the world, despite its failings and our own.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eunder one box another box\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eI head off like an inventory\u003cbr\u003e             like a kindergarten\u003cbr\u003eunder one box is a pie\u003cbr\u003e             the sky too is a box\u003cbr\u003e                          into which\u003cbr\u003ewe turn to each other\u003cbr\u003e              take stock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003emaybe the sky accidentally\u003cbr\u003e             knocks over a box\u003cbr\u003eso that a new person spills out\u003cbr\u003eand gets included\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThere\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this beautiful book, Michael Teig maps the mercurial terrain of the imagination with such equipoise you may forget you\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003ere dreaming just as these pages are so soaked with the miraculous everyday, you may forget you\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003ere awake. Imagine getting a letter from a zinnia. Deft as an owl landing in a blossoming cherry tree, these are gorgeously uncanny and regal poems.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dean Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e“With a title like this\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e—There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick\u003c\/i\u003e—is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with what\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dara Wier\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003eve been reading and loving Michael Teig\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es poems for years. His first book, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eBig Back Yard\u003c\/i\u003e, is full of direct language that leads us to places of true strangeness. Reading this new book, I experience that same intertwining of the ordinary and the dream, along with something deeper, a very moving emotional precision that is not merely about his own, but somehow all of our lives. When he writes a simple line like, ‘My chicken has pointy ears\/ like a forest’ or ‘Hear that? That\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es\/ our lawn dying,’ he has the old wisdom of Central European masters like Atilla Joszef (whom he quotes in his epigraph) and Vasko Popa, but in the mind of a young American poet, which is a very strange and powerful combination. I want to be with the mind who thinks about the world in that way, and thankfully holding this book I can be.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Matthew Zapruder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eBrimming with wit ... Teig’s second book of poems has one of the boldest titles in poetry-book history, and he follows his standout title with highly imaginative poems boasting imagery with passionate reach. Nearly every poem in this collection can be viewed as a picturesque mural that doesn’t quite make sense,yet, curiously, leads to wonder and excitement ... It is quite possible that Teig has inherited the mantle of William Carlos Williams’ \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eRed Wheelbarrow.\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e But there is nothing here that is definitive, and that is the point.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eMichael Teig is the author of \u003cem\u003eBig Back Yard\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 2003), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in such journals as \u003cem\u003eFIELD, Conduit, Black Warrior Review, Bateau, Crazyhorse, Pleiades\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/em\u003e. Teig is co-founder and editor of \u003cem\u003ejubilat \u003c\/em\u003eand holds degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His honors include awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Teig lives in Easthampton, MA, with his wife and son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: November 5, 2013\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e 978-1-938160-20-2\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420278597,"sku":"9781938160202","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THERE.jpg?v=1527683629"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/teig.jpg?v=1453995157","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/michael-teig.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}