{"product_id":"see-me-improving-lannan-literary-selections","title":"See Me Improving (Lannan Literary Selections)","description":"Used paperback in Very Good condition. \u003cp\u003eTravis Nichols is a young poet and novelist who invites readers into a world of relationships gone strange. In his poems, everyday human behaviors become fraught with extraordinary significance. It's a delicate balance of orchestration and improvisation--both dizzying and oddly comforting. The poems, thick with vibrant language and semantic play, hint at a Rimbaudian derangement of the senses while being hyper-alert and completely alive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll my life I've felt destined\u003cbr\u003e not for the greatness of my heroes\u003cbr\u003e but the goodness of their followers.\u003cbr\u003e I knew, even when I found a piece\u003cbr\u003e of tooth in my Sausage McMuffin,\u003cbr\u003e I would surmount the poverty\u003cbr\u003e and dullness of my youth.\u003cbr\u003e I knew neither my poverty nor my youth\u003cbr\u003e would be significant enough\u003cbr\u003e to attract attention,\u003cbr\u003e only simple enough\u003cbr\u003e to graft onto the great biographies.\u003cbr\u003e Even when I felt uncommon and angry enough\u003cbr\u003e to steal balloons from the drug store\u003cbr\u003e and spit red paintballs through a peashooter\u003cbr\u003e at people making out in the park I knew\u003cbr\u003e I was no Billy the Kid . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravis Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIowa\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poems, and \u003ci\u003eOff We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e (Coffee House Press), a novel. He edits the online magazine Weird Deer and regularly contributes to \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nichols, Travis","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53876475724059,"sku":"mon0000632071","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/5495053482742.jpg?v=1788535833","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/see-me-improving-lannan-literary-selections","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}