{"product_id":"goat-in-the-snow-9780982617762","title":"Goat in the Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. \"Emily Pettit has included a number of how to poems in her nimble and dazzling first collection  such as: How to Make No Noise  and the especially useful How to Avoid Confronting Most Large Animals. Her kindness is always ahead of us  anticipating the problems we will or wont run into  and we always end up in a different  precise place than the one we started out from  as she reassuringly tells us: You know \/ you know you know. Its all uncertainty \/ and your neck. You walk slowly \/ in a calm voice. GOAT IN THE SNOW is multicolored  ever-changing  a delight to try to clasp.\"John Ashbery  \"GOAT IN THE SNOW is like a taste test between an etch-a-sketch and a spotlight  a race between a wind-up beetle and an idea. The certainty of Pettits I know  and I think quickly turns into a quicksand of questions. Perceptive  jumpy and perfectly odd  this book encourages you to try to maneuver like a spacecraft \/ passing sufficiently close to a planet \/ in order to make some relatively detailed observations \/ Without landing.\"Matthea Harvey  \"The poems in GOAT IN THE SNOW often ask odd  penetrating questions. What do you call a field of black telephones ringing? Where did you find such a stunning embankment? Is this what loving someone is like? Do you remember the basement? In what direction do you look when someone says something true? These poems are full of mortal awareness  and are sophisticated without being ornate or poetic. When the poet says  Once in modest and murky water  I had a very disturbing conversation with a boat \" I dont feel as if she is writing in metaphor. I feel like something real has happened.\"Matthew Zapruder\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929885704245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0982617763","price":91.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780982617762.jpg?v=1794200132","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/goat-in-the-snow-9780982617762","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}