{ "item_title" : "A Short History of the Shadow", "item_author" : [" Charles Wright "], "item_description" : "Luminous new poems from one who has long been a poet of gorgeous description --William Logan, The New CriterionLandscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.Don't just do something, sit there.And so I have, so I have,the seasons curling around me like smoke,Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.--from Body and Soul II This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in Negative Blue, of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, a trilogy of trilogies hailed among the great long poems of the century (James Longenbach, Boston Review). In A Short History of the Shadow, Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/37/452/879/0374528799_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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