{"product_id":"the-nature-of-things-fragile-poems-hardcover","title":"The Nature of Things Fragile: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature of Things Fragile\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts the illnesses and deaths of loved ones, both recent and long past (\"Face Value,\" \"Odd Elegy,\" \"Trace,\"); the memories of old houses and towns left behind (\"Departure,\" Sugar Beets,\" \"Mourning Doves\"); and the vanishing of once-ubiquitous analog particulars (\"Apology to Candles,\" \"Dial Tone,\" \"In Praise of Blank Cassettes\"). It is indeed a book of elegies, but one that also celebrates the people, places, and things it laments, preserving their names and details while laying them to rest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things Fragile\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51198281449695,"sku":"9781641773652","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/CIiPqYAQJJ9781641773652.webp?v=1786669954","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-nature-of-things-fragile-poems-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}