{"product_id":"a-larger-country-paperback","title":"A Larger Country - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTomas Q. Morin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTom Sleigh\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tomáaacute;s Moríiacute;n's poems are as infectious and spooky and darkly humorous as the Brothers Grimm, as shapely and colloquial and eloquent as John Donne, and as skeptical and addicted to history-as-fable as Zbigniew Herbert.\"--Tom Sleigh, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An energetic and moving book of fantasias and elegies.\"--Edward Hirsch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR\/Honickman First Book Prize, Tomás Q. Morín's debut is rich with the mastery of Morín's lush storytelling. From war-torn images of Eastern Europe in the mid-1900s to modern-day glimpses of the American southwest, these poems are bold and brightly imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Castrato\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat do you call a gifted soprano\u003cbr\u003ewith no balls who is too ugly\u003cbr\u003eto play the heroine, is never tall enough\u003cbr\u003efor the role of the hero? Wait a quarter century\u003cbr\u003eand you can fast forward past the floggings, \u003cbr\u003ethe endless sermons, the giggles under alders\u003cbr\u003ewith curious girls, busted noses, carped\u003cbr\u003esisters with chubby boys, the innumerable\u003cbr\u003enights of sleeplessness. Better to skip all this\u003cbr\u003eunpleasantness and descend the last rise\u003cbr\u003etoward the coast where you can stroll the docks\u003cbr\u003ein the short light of winter, get lost\u003cbr\u003ein the cloudbank, let the sea ripen\u003cbr\u003ein your hair, scan the flat water\u003cbr\u003efor the handsome young men . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTomás Q. Morín\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Texas and educated at Texas State University and Johns Hopkins University. He lives in San Marcos, Texas, and teaches at Texas State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomas Q. Mornin: Tomás Q. Morín was born in Texas and educated at Texas State University and Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. His debut volume of poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Larger Country, \u003c\/i\u003e won the APR\/Honickman First Book Prize. He lives in San Marcos, Texas, and teaches at Texas State University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Sleigh: Tom Sleigh won the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award for his book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eSpace Walk\u003c\/i\u003e (Houghton Mifflin). His book of essays, \u003ci\u003eInterview with a Ghost, \u003c\/i\u003e was published by Graywolf Press in 2006. Sleigh has won the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and grants from the Lila Wallace Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Berlin, the Guggenheim Fourndation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011 he received the inaugural John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327815225581,"sku":"9780966339598","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/G2_WBErl3h9780966339598.webp?v=1784883352","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/a-larger-country-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}