{"product_id":"welcome-to-sonnetville-new-jersey","title":"Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winning poet and nationally recognized literary critic Craig Morgan Teicher’s \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection about entering middle age, raising a young family, sustaining a marriage, and taking care of a severely disabled child.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt around two sequences of sonnets, and interrupted by two sets of lyric poems, a set of prose poems, and a long poem about death, the book narrates a family’s move to the suburbs and their coming to terms with the ghosts of the past and with hard-to-hold hopes for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Craig Morgan Teicher\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Teicher borrows an ember from Frank O’Hara’s ‘I do this I do that’ poetry to light his family hearth, wielding the urbane form in the service of suburban existentialism in these affecting lines.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, ★ Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An understated, subtle dissertation on contemporary middle-class life in verse, and a fine introduction to a rising poet.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, ★ Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From a state of bewilderment to the condition of omniscience, Craig Morgan Teicher’s poetry stands simultaneously inside and outside of common understanding, struggling to un-domesticate the mind even as it seeks to more deeply inhabit the intimacies of domestic life. This is a book of unflinching self-scrutiny, by turns meditative, plainspoken, funny, and profound, where answers are not stable solutions but achingly alert responses to the trauma and triumph of human existence.” \u003cb\u003e—2017 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Judges Citation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of Teicher’s great strengths is his honesty. He frequently reveals his flaws and mistakes to the reader, laying bare intimate details about his wife, his son, and his marriage to illustrate his humanity. His writing is full of lists and repetition, as if Teicher is searching for answers in real-time. Each poem is meaty and sprawling, providing plenty of space for interpretation and re-interpretation.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Teicher writes affectingly about family relations and the particular burdens and beauties of raising a disabled child. This is poetry, in other words, about how life really feels: ‘Night is long, life short. \/ I cover you with my eyes.’” \u003cb\u003e—Barbara Hoffert, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eHow Now\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe walks along the shore with his daughter.\u003cbr\u003eHe’s still young. They watch the water.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s beautiful, though the waves are rough.\u003cbr\u003eBeing near it today, together, is enough.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a holy moment, he thinks hopefully,\u003cbr\u003ethe kind that will become a memory\u003cbr\u003eto feed the thin heart on a dry day\u003cbr\u003ewhen his daughter has grown and gone away.\u003cbr\u003eBut she’s still right here, holding his hand\u003cbr\u003eas waves roll in. She is—or was. He can’t understand\u003cbr\u003ewhat happened—they had only just\u003cbr\u003eturned to go home, but more time must\u003cbr\u003ehave passed. A moment, and it’s already now.\u003cbr\u003eWhere did she go? And when? And how?\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32711935295569,"sku":"9781950774258","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/WelcomeToSonnetville_FIN_R2_LO.jpg?v=1609875756","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/welcome-to-sonnetville-new-jersey","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}