{"product_id":"in-the-lateness-of-the-world-poems","title":"In the Lateness of the World: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the Lateness of the World: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCarolyn Forché\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780525560425\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\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\u003e96\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003e2021 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An undisputed literary event.\" --NPR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"History--with its construction and its destruction--is at the heart of \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave--a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories.\" --Hilton Als, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her first new collection in seventeen years, \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination arrives and \"there is nothing that cannot be seen.\" \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"In the Lateness of the World: Poems | Carolyn Forché | Paperback | 9780525560425 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1712248 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48166360449176,"sku":"1712248","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81_-fB4uKbL.jpg?v=1771928496","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/in-the-lateness-of-the-world-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}