{"product_id":"old-stranger-poems","title":"Old Stranger: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this sixth collection from a beloved American poet, the reader is asked to reflect on the stranger within others--and ourselves. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe speaker in\u003ci\u003e Old Stranger: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e begs to be seen and known, even when faced with her aging and her own mortality. Even as we age, there's a looming space for the mysterious stranger we embody without realizing it. Do we ever truly know who we are? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the book, familiarity takes so many forms, as does the stranger: sometimes the stranger is a loved one, sometimes it is the speaker to themselves, and other times it's one who might seem like a stranger in the poem but turns out to be recognizable in one or more ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are looking back, but at the same time we are so much in the present, there's an in-betweenness of the temporal that is so dreamlike and delicious. The poems are suspended and feel weightless even as their subjects are weighty and, at times, dark.","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317652025560,"sku":"9781949944648","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_2993e2b8-d9ec-4209-a8c2-581142fbb62e.jpg?v=1787949695","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/old-stranger-poems","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}