{"product_id":"human-hours-poems","title":"Human Hours: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHuman Hours: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCatherine Barnett\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781555978143\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGraywolf Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e80\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe triumphant follow-up collection to \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Laughlin Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection, \u003ci\u003eHuman Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are \"accursed,\" that are limited--and unanswered--by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow--or at least measure--time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover's breaths; by remembering a father's space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. \u003ci\u003eHuman Hours \u003c\/i\u003epulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Human Hours: Poems | Catherine Barnett | Paperback | 9781555978143 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743514","offer_id":48199236878488,"sku":"1743514","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81xdAwCrhmL.jpg?v=1772550094","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/human-hours-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}