{"product_id":"maybe-the-saddest-thing-9780062191014","title":"Maybe the Saddest Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons, from Pam Grier to Flavor Flav, from RuPaul to Dave Chapelle.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Erika Meitner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Keats, too, would have admired the holy truth of Marcus Wicker, whose lyric wizardry astounds the ear.\"\u003cbr\u003e--D.A. Powell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, Marcus Wicker's \u003cem\u003eMaybe the Saddest Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a sterling collection of contemporary American poems by an exciting new and emerging voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wicker, Marcus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062191014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.20d","brand":"Marcus Wicker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32745524592715,"sku":"9780062191014","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_2a533d8b-97a9-480b-babd-5af66966d575.jpg?v=1597703419","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/maybe-the-saddest-thing-9780062191014","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}