{"product_id":"9780140589191","title":"Reign of Snakes","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eWrigley, Robert\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePenguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6\/1\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eDescribed by the late \u003cb\u003eJames Dickey\u003c\/b\u003e as \"one of the finest new poets to come along in years,\" \u003cb\u003eRobert Wrigley\u003c\/b\u003e fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. \u003cb\u003eReign of Snakes\u003c\/b\u003e is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As \u003cb\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e said of Wrigley's previous book, \u003cb\u003eIn the Bank of Beautiful Sins\u003c\/b\u003e (Penguin, 1995), \"To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift.\" \u003cb\u003eReign of Snakes\u003c\/b\u003e takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, \"where the dark blows a kiss to night.\"\u003cp\u003e. . . \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ea frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of   the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --from \"\u003cb\u003eReign of Snakes\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45571365372159,"sku":"9780140589191","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780140589191_s600x595.jpg?v=1777308609","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780140589191","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}