{"product_id":"second-nature","title":"Second Nature","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSecond Nature\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePatricia Carlin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780996427555\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMarsh Hawk Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\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\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\u003ePoetry. 'Windows slam shut, like widows, or stones'--these poems carry a braid of unspoken stories. Visionary, honed, distilled, charged with the immediacy of a dream before you coax it into a story and the challenges of our baffling history, Patricia Carlin's poems remind me--entirely on their own terms--of the intimate 'you must change your life' urgency of the \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e. Carlin's lines ride on the breath, vulnerable to their own insight--'before this life we were together \/ and never now again'--and her eloquence has an edge of silence. SECOND NATURE is stunning work.--D. Nurkse\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECOND NATURE usually means a notion along the lines of 'instinctive, ' and Patricia Carlin's poems always are prodigiously accomplished in this rare sense --casually (if not effortlessly) deft, smart, stylish, consummate, and winning. But, range a little farther, and SECOND NATURE also intimates another nature beyond our everyday rival pasts ('a life gone missing'), or alternate futures ('This is not the body I will die in'). SECOND NATURE is a brilliant, dauntless, and ensorcelling book.--Robert Polito\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs though we're never quite sure which identical twin we're meeting, the world in these poems is both 'known' and 'unknown, ' a 'somewhere' and a 'nowhere.' SECOND NATURE is a book of deep retrospection and preparation, breathtaking in its scope and maturity.--Susan Wheeler\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Marsh Hawk Press","offers":[{"title":"Second Nature | Patricia Carlin | Paperback | 9780996427555 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1732844","offer_id":48711672561816,"sku":"1732844","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71Ak7H2p4AL.jpg?v=1773785702","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/second-nature","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}