{"product_id":"the-auroras","title":"The Auroras","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exciting, long-awaited collection from the National Book Award finalist, a poet of wild imagination and formidable accomplishment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid St. John's new collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Auroras\u003c\/i\u003e, is the most provocative, adventurous, and stylistically eclectic work of his career. Composed as a triptych of three distinct movements, it opens with a sequence of urgent, subversive, sensually charged poems, crackling with desire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the center section, St. John returns to the California landscapes of his youth, in both the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These poems are quiet and measured, yet often psychologically troubling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final section of \u003ci\u003eThe Auroras\u003c\/i\u003e is constructed as an album of philosophical and aesthetic meditations, all haunted by the force of an emerging sense of mortality. In this collection, even the most compelling emanations of light - artistic, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual - are inevitably framed by impending darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John's poetry have been long admired; now \u003ci\u003eThe Auroras\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the extent and breadth of his masterful poetic achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42986028728400,"sku":"9780062088482B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-auroras","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}