{"product_id":"trading-riffs-to-slay-monsters-poems-9780374617646b","title":"Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLet’s go back far as we dare\u003cbr\u003eto go back to that land bridge\u003cbr\u003emade of untrusting earth \u0026amp; ice,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto a boorish faith in our rhythm\u003cbr\u003eof footsteps, the fleeting mantra\u003cbr\u003eof wordless dreams . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTrading Riffs to Slay Monsters\u003c\/span\u003e, the collaborative work of an elder statesman of American poetry and a young emerging poet. In early 2020, Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung began a conversation in verse that carried them through the COVID pandemic. The result is a work that is at once a document of the poets’ inner and outer worlds and also a single and singular vision of what it is to live now and to look back on the epic scale of human history and artistic expression that stretches over millennia.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872438194256,"sku":"9780374617646B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374617646-l.jpg?v=1785871172","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/trading-riffs-to-slay-monsters-poems-9780374617646b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}