{"product_id":"i-am-your-lifeguard-new-and-selected-poems-9781324118176","title":"I Am Your Lifeguard: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charlie Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on nine previous collections and including nearly fifty new poems, Charlie Smith's \u003cem\u003eI Am Your Lifeguard\u003c\/em\u003e marks the return of one of our most honest and unorthodox poets. The poems in this collection expose jagged truths: some are love letters; some focus our attention on beauty we may have otherwise missed, stepped over or cast aside; some tell us secrets we may want to carry in a locket; some are x-ray readings of our hearts; some are laugh-out-loud funny; some are quiet revelations. Each one is a prism through which Smith refracts and reflects the experience of consciousness, such as \"No Nonsense,\" in which he writes that \"I came \/ away from myself \/ unstuck \/ and a sort of translucent orderliness \/ like a small herd of gazelles \/ entered my mind.\" The cascade of imagery, observation, and revelation that characterizes Smith's work imbues the collection with an expansive, radical compassion. It \"remind[s] us . . . we don't really know what beauty is until we've looked hard at the horror that throws beauty into bright relief\" (David Kirby, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Am Your Lifeguard\u003c\/em\u003e is prophetic and prescient, exquisitely descriptive of what it means to be human, and astonishingly attentive to beauty found even in the most derelict places. This collection is a stunning retrospective from an award-winning writer of \"scalding aortal brilliance\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47778873802903,"sku":"9781324118176","price":2366.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781324118176.webp?v=1778031751","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/i-am-your-lifeguard-new-and-selected-poems-9781324118176","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}