{"product_id":"awayward","title":"Awayward","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWinner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e Selected by Jean Valentine\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her Foreword to \u003cem\u003eAwayward\u003c\/em\u003e, National Book Award-winning poet Jean Valentine writes, “Jennifer Kronovet’s poems in \u003cem\u003eAwayward\u003c\/em\u003e are so surprising and compelling and beautiful, so intelligent and felt. Kronovet uses simple words and works at a mysterious depth, one we can enter with gladness.” Written while Kronovet was living in Beijing, \u003cem\u003eAwayward \u003c\/em\u003eilluminates the sense of disconnect that travelers experience when their major touchstones of language and geography are altered. These poems wander the world, drifting in and out of conversations that are alternately comical and grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSight; Seeing\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe town was built because\u003cbr\u003e of a wall and before the wall.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe weather of having said \u003cbr\u003e everything before is making us sing.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead of pointing,\u003cbr\u003e we are moving forward. Holding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eour little built world\u003cbr\u003e between us as I try\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto make a decision in two\u003cbr\u003e languages at once, the decision\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebecoming a tourist site. \u003cbr\u003e You’ve seen the pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for the collection\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In every poem, Kronovet searches ‘the corners \/ of fact’ and finds unusual things in plain sight . . . These free verse lyrics, stacks of narrow couplets, prose poems and poems in two lines are at once endearing and deadly serious.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My God, what a brilliant collection Kronovet has written. Yes, Awayward is a smarty-pants book, but it’s also deeply sincere, heartfelt. I’m still recovering from my most recent reading of it.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gefilte Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2009\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419976837,"sku":"9781934414187","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/AWAYWARD.jpg?v=1527683175","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/awayward","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}