{"product_id":"the-nature-of-things-fragile-poems","title":"Nature of Things Fragile","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature of Things Fragile\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts the illnesses and deaths of loved ones, both recent and long past (“Face Value,” “Odd Elegy,” “Trace,”); the memories of old houses and towns left behind (“Departure,” Sugar Beets,” “Mourning Doves”); and the vanishing of once-ubiquitous analog particulars (“Apology to Candles,” “Dial Tone,” “In Praise of Blank Cassettes”). It is indeed a book of elegies, but one that also celebrates the people, places, and things it laments, preserving their names and details while laying them to rest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things Fragile\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Encounter Books,USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54008154521944,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-nature-of-things-fragile-poems","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}