{"product_id":"white-city","title":"White City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tIn \u003cem\u003eWhite City\u003c\/em\u003e Mark Irwin makes stunning jumps in imagination to create poetry that is Rilkean in conception and execution, yet speaks to America at the end of the 20th century. Irwin's vision for American is as broad as Walt Whitman's while his language is propelled by changing rhythms, lush music and fresh imagery. As in \u003cem\u003eQuick, Now, Always\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 1996), the poems in \u003cem\u003eWhite City\u003c\/em\u003e deal with a past that is beyond recovery (\"before the word had become motor\"), a future that is ominous and a present that is uncertain. \"Do we belong where we are going,\" Irwin asks in \"Wind,\" \"or where we are?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tSomeone\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003c\/strong\u003e is building an invisible city\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbefore us.  They work slowly at night while history\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tis forfeited in sleep, or during brief intervals\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof day when we forget, or gaze out\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twindows.  The city both is and is larger than our dreams\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twhere some of us visit, carrying our hearts\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tlike red lanterns, which from a distance resemble\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ta carnival of joy so resplendent and sunstruck\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twe revisit those white walls time and again,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tcasting against that world the rose landscape \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof our bodies, what some call our lives,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tuntil one spring, gazing perfectly at both flowers\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tand stars, we become the enormous hope of forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2000\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-880238-83-7\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: December 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419390405,"sku":"1880238837","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_157.jpeg?v=1527683786","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/white-city","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}