{"product_id":"put-your-hands-in-9780807155851","title":"Put Your Hands in","description":"\"Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. We are still experiencing its consequences. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp's notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a derisive critic wanted to rename 'Explosion in a Shingle Factory.' Both titles come to mind as one reads Chris Hosea's \u003ci\u003ePut Your Hands In, \u003c\/i\u003e which somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top. Maybe that's because 'poetry is the cruelest month, ' as he says, correcting T. S. Eliot. Transfixed in midparoxysm, the poems also remind us of Samuel Beckett's line (in Watt): 'The pain not yet pleasure, the pleasure not yet pain.' One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest.\" -- John Ashbery, from his judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Hosea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Louisiana State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 6.02w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807155851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Walt Whitman Award - Winner","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713542623369,"sku":"9780807155851","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_554e206d-d632-4616-8e9f-623e81eaf11e.jpg?v=1719614935","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/put-your-hands-in-9780807155851","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}