{"product_id":"wideawake-field-paperback","title":"Wideawake Field - 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\u003eEliza Griswold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chairs have come in \u003cbr\u003eand the crisp yellow thwock \u003cbr\u003eof the ball being hit \u003cbr\u003esays somehow, now that it's fall, \u003cbr\u003eI'm a memory of myself. \u003cbr\u003eMy whole old life--\u003cbr\u003eI mourn you sometimes \u003cbr\u003ein places you would have been\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. As a reporter's dispatches, they concern themselves with different forms of desolation: what it means to feel at home in wrecked places and then to experience loneliness and dislocation in the familiar. The collection arcs between internal and external worlds--the disappointment of returning, the guilt and thrill of departure, unexpected encounters in blighted places-- and, with ruthless observations etched in the sparest lines, the poems in \u003ci\u003eWideawake Field \u003c\/i\u003esharply and movingly navigate the poles of home and away.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Griswold \u003c\/b\u003eis the recipient of the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism and is a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, where she is at work on a nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Parallel\u003c\/i\u003e, also to be published by FSG.\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 0.33 x 8.3 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350517170425,"sku":"9780374531300","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SVhQZTcxeTFWQlpRay9rWFJxaTN1Zz09.webp?v=1769786643","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/wideawake-field-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}