{ "item_title" : "See Me Improving", "item_author" : [" Travis Nichols "], "item_description" : "Travis Nichols is a young poet and novelist who invites readers into a world of relationships gone strange. In his poems, everyday human behaviors become fraught with extraordinary significance. It's a delicate balance of orchestration and improvisation--both dizzying and oddly comforting. The poems, thick with vibrant language and semantic play, hint at a Rimbaudian derangement of the senses while being hyper-alert and completely alive.All my life I've felt destinednot for the greatness of my heroesbut the goodness of their followers.I knew, even when I found a pieceof tooth in my Sausage McMuffin, I would surmount the povertyand dullness of my youth.I knew neither my poverty nor my youthwould be significant enoughto attract attention, only simple enoughto graft onto the great biographies.Even when I felt uncommon and angry enoughto steal balloons from the drug storeand spit red paintballs through a peashooterat people making out in the park I knewI was no Billy the Kid . . .Travis Nichols is an editor at the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of Iowa, a collection of poems, and Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (Coffee House Press), a novel. He edits the online magazine Weird Deer and regularly contributes to The Believer, Paste, and The Stranger. He lives in Chicago.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/55/659/312/1556593120_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.00", "online_price" : "15.00", "our_price" : "15.00", "club_price" : "15.00", "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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