{"product_id":"we-the-jury-poems-9781571315311","title":"We the Jury: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wayne Miller\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in \u003cem\u003eWe the Jury\u003c\/em\u003e: the hard ones, the impossible ones.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an academic dinner party disturbing in its crassness and disaffection to a family struggling to communicate gently the permanence of death, Miller situates his poems in dilemma. He faces moments of profound discomfort, grief, and even joy with a philosopher's curiosity, a father's compassion, and an overarching inquiry at the crossroads of ethics and art: what is the poet's role in making sense of human behavior? A bomb crater-turned-lake \"exploding with lilies,\" a home lost during the late-aughts housing crash--these images and others, powerful and resonant, attempt to answer that question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCandid and vulnerable, Miller sits with us while we puzzle: we all wish we knew what to tell our children about death. But he also pushes past this and other uncertainties, vowing--and inviting us--to \"expand our relationship \/ with Death,\" and with every challenging, uncomfortable subject we meet. In the face of questions that seem impossible to answer, \u003cem\u003eWe the Jury\u003c\/em\u003e offers not a shrug, but curiosity, transparency, a throwing of the arms wide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45137164533911,"sku":"9781571315311","price":780.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781571315311.webp?v=1767909454","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/we-the-jury-poems-9781571315311","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}