{"product_id":"tiepolos-hound-1","title":"Tiepolo's Hound","description":"From the Nobel laureate  a \"resplently luminous\" (Paul Gray  Time) book-length poem on two educations in painting  a century apart.Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;my awe of the ordinary  because even as I write paused on a step of this couplet  I have never foundits image again  a hound in astounding light.Tiepolos Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro  born in 1830  leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- \"a slash of pink on the inner thigh\/of a white hound\" -- of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Both journeys take us through a Europe of the minds eye  in search of a connection between the lost  actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire. Published with twenty-six of Derek Walcotts own paintings  the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-exile  a history in verse of Impressionist painting  and a memoir of the poets desire to catch the visual world in more than words.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44923680587829,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374527792","price":91.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0374527792_2f0780e3-1317-4be2-a55b-03d19105339c.jpg?v=1770156398","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tiepolos-hound-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}