{"product_id":"human-hours-poems-catherine-barnett","title":"Human Hours: Poems;  Catherine Barnett","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eCatherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuman Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are “accursed,” that are limited—and unanswered—by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow—or at least measure—time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover’s breaths; by remembering a father’s space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuman Hours\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eCatherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSolutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Believer Book Award, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Game of Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605773226306,"sku":"","price":8.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/humanhrs.jpg?v=1747407262","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/human-hours-poems-catherine-barnett","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}