{"product_id":"dark-alphabet-9780809327263","title":"Dark Alphabet","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer Maier\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn works whose subjects range from the religious to the carnal, the whimsical to the foreboding, \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJennifer Maier's debut collection of poems, \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Alphabet, \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the everyday mysteries of our common experience with humor, lucidity, and an unblinking yet compassionate eye. Whether occasioned by a song overheard on the car radio, a packet of risqué postcards from the 1920's, a conversation with a dead parent, or the behavior of ducks in mating season, each poem sets off on a journey that ranges far from its origins, arriving with the reader in a clearing at dusk, in a place of wise good humor and somber grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969736818839,"sku":"9780809327263","price":1189.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780809327263.webp?v=1782923688","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dark-alphabet-9780809327263","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}