{"product_id":"swarm-poems-9780880016957","title":"Swarm: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith Swarm  her first new collection since The Errancy  Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham has given us a book-length sequence of poems stunning in its sober encounter with destiny  eros  and law. The narrator  at times almost vertigo-ridden by the problem of who is addressed-whom there still is to address-negotiates passionately with those powers human beings feel themselves to be \"underneath\": God  matter  law  custom  the force of love. To \"swarm\" is to leave an originating organisma hive  a home country  a stable sense of ones body  a stable hierarchy of values -- in an attempt  by coming apart  to found a new form that will hold. The Roman Empire  its distillation in the Forums remains  the Romantic imagination of that buried past (\"underneath\")  as well as the collapse of the erotic border between lovers bodies  are persistent metaphors for the destabilization and reformation of the idea and sensation of personhood. The \"first\" person and \"enjambment\" are characters in this book  as are the fragment  the gap  the sentence. And everywhere lovers seek to find the borders that must break as well as those that must at all cost hold. Clytemnestra await-ing Agamemnon  Calypso veiling Ulysses  Daphne accepting Apollo -- a variety of mythological characters reappear here  ea-ger to plead their stories into sense  desper-ate for some insight into the buried justice of natural law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67976584396853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0880016957","price":33.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780880016957.jpg?v=1794652064","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/swarm-poems-9780880016957","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}