{"product_id":"desert-center-paperback","title":"Desert Center - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiles Waggener\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesert Center\u003c\/i\u003e embraces the complexities of the particular in place and person, from the deserts of the Southwest to his current home territory in Nebraska. Indeed, Waggener's heartland is wherever his poetic visions land, regardless if they are open, spare places or urban streets; they explore, as well, so wonderfully the characters who populate such territory, unnoticed people whose presence can only command notice from a poet such as Waggener.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As Jim Simmerman has noted about \u003ci\u003ePhoenix Suites\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), an earlier book, Waggener's poems \"never steer the easy streets of sentimentality and irony.\" Rather, he finds in the blank slate of his physical and intellectual regions matters of beauty, strange yet familiar, and brings them to resonate for us all. Though Waggener is a recent arrival to the Great Plains--and specifically Nebraska letters--he is sure to be one of a number of contemporary voices to set the course for the region's next generation of writers and poets, joining the company of such people as Kooser, Kloefkorn, Shapiro, Welch, Kosmicki as that path is laid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMILES WAGGENER is the author of two previous poetry collections: \u003ci\u003ePhoenix Suites\u003c\/i\u003e (The Word Works, 2003), winner of the Washington Prize; and \u003ci\u003eSky Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e (Pinyon Publishing, 2011); as well as the chapbooks \u003ci\u003ePortents Aside\u003c\/i\u003e (Two Dogs Press, 2008); \u003ci\u003eAfterlives\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line, 2013); \u003ci\u003eThe Jeremiads\u003c\/i\u003e (Slowed Soul, 2017); and \u003ci\u003eArterial Roads\u003c\/i\u003e (Open Country Press, 2017). He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where he coordinates the Writer's Workshop at The University of Nebraska Omaha. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353819463929,"sku":"9781622881581","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VedadmfH2j9781622881581.webp?v=1769828607","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/desert-center-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}