{"product_id":"a-certain-clarity-selected-poems-9780374261122","title":"A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer  Drawing from his first book  Shouting at No One  from 1983  and continuing through to his most recent  So Where Are We?  from 2017  A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Josephs \"poetry of great dignity  grace  and unrelenting persuasiveness (John Ashbery)  each poem an inspired  made thing by a poet-advocate who has honed a timely song within an urgent testimony that embraces the complex density of truth (Yusef Komunyakaa).  Josephs poems constitute one of the most essential and visionary bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. No other American poet covers the territory Joseph does. His ever-new interactions of thoughts  voices  and languagesinfluenced by his Lebanese and Syrian Catholic heritage  his professional life as a lawyer and legal scholar  and the economies of the world of working-class labor from which he comesbear witness  on multilayered spatial and temporal planes  to the velocities of global and historical change  and to power structures embodied in endless wars  unleashed capital  racism  and ecological destruction  presenting an ongoing chronicle of what it means to write poetry in the turbulent times in which we live. But also integral to Josephs poetry is a sensual intimacy  passionately driven by an acute awareness of a deeper order in which beauty  love  and justice are indistinguishable.  Meticulously formed  emotionally fierce  intellectually challenging  Josephs poems press back against the high-stakes pressures of our time with a moral and aesthetic intensity not easily forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665835941941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374261121","price":61.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374261122.jpg?v=1782409406","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-certain-clarity-selected-poems-9780374261122","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}