{"product_id":"previously-owned-paperback","title":"Previously Owned - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathan McClain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker's American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, \u003ci\u003ePreviously Owned\u003c\/i\u003e connects a villanelle cataloging Sisyphus's circular workflow to a Die Hard persona poem critiquing police brutality and joins complex pastorals to the stunning sequence entitled \"They said I was an alternate,\" which recounts the author's experience serving on jury duty. Though McClain's muscular lyric explores a wide range of topics, the intensity of his attention and the profundity of his care remain constant-the final page describes a young girl in a diner, ringing the bell at the host stand, \"just to hear it sing, the same \/ song, the only song \/\/ it knows.\" Insofar as this collection scrutinizes one's own culpability and responsibility in this country, interested in the natural world and beauty, as well as what beauty distracts us from, it does so in the hopes of reimagining inheritance, of leaving our children a different song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathan McClain was born and raised in the lower desert of Southern California. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eScale\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2017), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreen Mountains Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuesthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Common\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Critical Flame, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literary Arts at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731857969215,"sku":"9781954245266","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c22ac63672d23a429eb756e22ece2082.webp?v=1765130384","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/previously-owned-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}