{"product_id":"reign-of-snakes-9780140589191","title":"Reign of Snakes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Wrigley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by the late \u003cb\u003eJames Dickey\u003c\/b\u003e as \"one of the finest new poets to come along in years,\" \u003cb\u003eRobert Wrigley\u003c\/b\u003e fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. \u003cb\u003eReign of Snakes\u003c\/b\u003e is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As \u003cb\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e said of Wrigley's previous book, \u003cb\u003eIn the Bank of Beautiful Sins\u003c\/b\u003e (Penguin, 1995), \"To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift.\" \u003cb\u003eReign of Snakes\u003c\/b\u003e takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, \"where the dark blows a kiss to night.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ea frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --from \"\u003cb\u003eReign of Snakes\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408432357527,"sku":"9780140589191","price":1870.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780140589191.webp?v=1767309885","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reign-of-snakes-9780140589191","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}