{"product_id":"beyond-belief-poems-9780374607869b","title":"Beyond Belief: Poems","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIt’s presumptuous, but if you’re reading this you\u003cbr\u003eProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:\u003cbr\u003eThe “world”—both the word and what it stands for—and time,\u003cbr\u003eWhich is or isn’t real, depending on my mood. I’ve always\u003cbr\u003eHated poems about philosophy, and I hope I still do,\u003cbr\u003eBut since I don’t know what that means anymore, here I am,\u003cbr\u003eMusing on my ends and my beginnings one more time . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBeyond Belief\u003c\/span\u003e, John Koethe poses eternal and essential questions about the rhythms of time, language and literature, and “the space between attention and belief.” The eleventh book of poetry from America’s philosopher-poet is an intimate, searching collection that gives life to the mundane and lends words to our most interior and abstract musings. What makes a life real? Words on a page, the accumulation of moments and memories, or nothing at all? And what is a life worth? Locked inside, have we lost our future and its promises or are we merely pressed to inhabit our present and ourselves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe award-winning poet invites us into his consideration of our world, as “An ordinary person sitting on his balcony on a summer afternoon, \/ Waiting patiently for someone to explain it to and meanwhile \/ Living quietly in his imagination, imagining the afterlife.”","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42870276554832,"sku":"9780374607869B","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374607869-l.jpg?v=1785883653","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/beyond-belief-poems-9780374607869b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}