{"product_id":"good-people","title":"Good People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Prufer's \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood People \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewonders, \"What can poetry preserve against erasure?\" as history presses in. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Kevin Prufer's eleventh collection, \u003cem\u003eGood People, \u003c\/em\u003e the uneasy forces of history, imagination, and memory collide. As morally dubious characters remember only the events that suit their stories best, narratives fracture and decades collapse across a single line break. Published under the setting sun of the American dream, these poems exhume the mundane violences that belie our modern comforts: A television broadcasts scenes of war into an otherwise cozy living room; a kitten, asleep in a truck engine, perishes at the turn of the ignition. Shifting effortlessly from brutal to tender, darkly comic to philosophical, \u003cem\u003eGood People \u003c\/em\u003easks us, good people ourselves, what our relationship to history must be when \"the present has nothing to say back to it \/ that it can hear.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Prufer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68242154324119,"sku":"9781556597459","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/good-people-2571872.jpg?v=1793784256","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/good-people","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}