{"product_id":"the-irrationalist","title":"The Irrationalist","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuffams often deadpan tone is like a magical dustpan that sweeps up the strangest observations and ideas  all worlds to themselves. Her Little CommentariesOn Piatas  On Fountains  and On Vanishing Acts (to name only a few)are absolute gems  kin to Anne Carsons town poems and Yoko Onos Grapefruit. Buffams poems tug at new corners of the brain. Theyre marvelous. - Matthea Harvey  Buffam begins with a world that ends  a world that is always ending. This is not despair  but a shrewd mind behind an honest eye that in wry observation creates out of small poems a book of knowledge  Little Commentaries  which show there is no wisdom unsharpened by wounding wit. That motion is an essential motion  and these are essential poems. - Dan Beachy-Quick  These poems try to achieve something almost impossible: not to betray the ironic today while celebrating the interiority of a serious meditation. And they succeed in doing it. What a treat! - Adam Zagajewski\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967256653877,"sku":"ByrdShop_0982237634","price":92.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780982237632.jpg?v=1770641662","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-irrationalist","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}