{ "item_title" : "A Portrait of Energy", "item_author" : [" Aaron D. Wiegert "], "item_description" : "Aaron D. Wiegert's A Portrait of Energy pays close attention to the textures of Midwestern life, the specific weight of a father sharing a picture of his headstone on his phone, the half-dollar earned for a day's work taking garbage to the dump, the smell of laundry drifting up from a basement ping pong table. The book moves between rural childhood and urban adulthood, at home in both, where one might escape from a wasp and be struck by a car but also find love, passion, and the clouds of family. Wiegert is a poet of accumulation and close observation, patient with the ordinary and unafraid of the dark corners where honest family memory collects.-John Gallaher, The Laurel ReviewThe poems in Aaron Wiegert's A Portrait of Energy are inventive, musical and authentic in their depictions of family ties across generations. They also offer vivid, cinematic glimpses into the age-old quests of finding self, love and purpose against a Midwestern backdrop. These poems celebrate the extraordinary and strange details of everyday existence, with language that is urgent and exciting-there are so many evocative, amazing examples of wordplay and storytelling here-gripping poems as alive in their wisdom as they are in their wonder.-Kevin Ridgeway, author of Death of the Coppertone Girl (Luchador Press)", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/889/975/9798899750595_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.00", "online_price" : "13.00", "our_price" : "13.00", "club_price" : "13.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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