{"product_id":"about-the-dead-volume-15-9780874218275","title":"About the Dead: Volume 15","description":"\u003cp\u003eTravis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: \"ask him to put into words what that sinking is, \/ that shudder in his chest, as he notices \/ the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth.\" But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, \"each of them, stuffed \/ into a body they didn't choose, resembled \/ your own plight.\" His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. \u003ci\u003eAbout the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his \"drift, and ride it like the billowed \/ end of some cockamamie parachute all the way \/ back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Travis Mossotti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Utah State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Swenson Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780874218275","brand":"Utah State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45156149690505,"sku":"9780874218275","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9e940795-4381-4a12-a4b6-cc5cd042bacf.jpg?v=1768295316","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/about-the-dead-volume-15-9780874218275","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}