{"product_id":"the-eternal-city-poems-9780691146102","title":"The Eternal City: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal City\u003c\/i\u003e offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past. Questioning what it means to possess and to be possessed by objects and technologies, Kathleen Graber's award-winning second collection of poetry brings together the elevated and the quotidian to make neighbors of Marcus Aurelius, Klaus Kinski, Walter Benjamin, and Johnny Depp. Like Aeneas, who escapes Troy carrying his father on his back, the speaker of these intellectually and emotionally ambitious poems juggles the weight of private and public history as she is transformed from settled resident to pilgrim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Graber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton Contemporary Poets #55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691146102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717890412681,"sku":"9780691146102","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_02aa9bae-69fd-4615-baf9-fee667738777.jpg?v=1719683759","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-eternal-city-poems-9780691146102","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}