{"product_id":"the-americans-paperback-5","title":"The Americans - 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\u003eDavid Roderick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Roderick's second book, The Americans, pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question: What does it mean to be an American? Restless against the borders we build--between countries, between each other--Roderick roams from place to place in order to dig into the messy, political, idealistic and ultimately inexplicable idea of American-ness. His rangy, inquisitive lyrics stitch together a patchwork flag, which he stakes alongside all the noise of our construction, our obsessive building and making, while he imagines the fate of a nation built on desire.\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2014 Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book published by an independent press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Roderick's\u003c\/b\u003e first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eBlue Colonial, \u003c\/i\u003e won the APR\/Honickman Prize. He has published poetry and fiction in several journals, including the \u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review, Indiana Review, New England Review, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, Slate, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review.\u003c\/i\u003e Roderick is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and was awarded the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, among other honors. Poems from this collection have won \u003ci\u003eShenandoah's\u003c\/i\u003e James Boatwright III Prize and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College. Roderick is associate professor of English in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\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 0.3 x 8.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353508036857,"sku":"9780822963127","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/drCmzIkB7i9780822963127.webp?v=1769825035","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-americans-paperback-5","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}