{"product_id":"white-spaces-selected-poems-and-early-prose-9780811229432","title":"White Spaces: Selected Poems and Early Prose","description":"\u003cem\u003eWhite Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the poetry and prose of Paul Auster from various small-press books issued throughout the seventies. These early poetic works are crucial for understanding the evolution of Auster's writing. Taut, lyrical, and always informed by a powerful and subtle music, his poems begin with basics--a swallow's egg, stones, roots, thistle, \"the glacial rose\"--and push language to the breaking point. As Robert Creeley wrote, \"The enduring power of these early poems is their moving address to a world all too elusive, too fragmented, and too bitterly transient.\" Auster's poems are grounded in a physical utterance that is at once an exploration of the mind and of the world. This collection begins with compact verse fragments from Spokes (originally published in Poetry, 1971) and goes through Auster's marvelous later collections including \u003cem\u003eWall Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (The Figures, 1976), \u003cem\u003eFacing the Music\u003c\/em\u003e (Parenthese, 1979), and \u003cem\u003eWhite Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e (Station Hill, 1980).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10364455\"\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811229432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811229432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42680570151149,"sku":"9780811229432","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_9cb9a609-5782-4633-b56f-6090d2ace730.jpg?v=1649696352","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/white-spaces-selected-poems-and-early-prose-9780811229432","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}