{"product_id":"exit-civilian-poems-paperback","title":"Exit, Civilian: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIdra Novey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration has altered American families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what's next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Bafflement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe drew a prison in the sand and it wouldn't go away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot even beneath the foam of the biggest waves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe torn leg of a starfish clung to the door. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA piece of seaweed clung to the bars over the windows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tide came in higher and we thought, So much for the prison. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomebody asked why did we draw that thing, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd were we growing old watching it this way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe felt compelled to make love in the sand a few feet off. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen we drew another one, just to see if we'd make love again.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIDRA NOVEY is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eWays to Disappear.\u003c\/i\u003e Her fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, and she has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the PEN Translation Fund, and the Poetry Foundation. She has taught at Princeton University, Columbia, NYU, Fordham, the Catholic University of Chile, and in the Bard Prison Initiative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726446489907,"sku":"9780820343488","price":30.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cVJhMUpjYmFOcUhCK2x0NUt5WWkyZz09.webp?v=1763737238","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/exit-civilian-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}