{"product_id":"saint-x-paperback","title":"Saint X - 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\u003eKirk Nesset\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirk Nesset's \u003ci\u003eSaint X\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America; people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style. Wearing bandages rather than smiles, they're misshapen champions downed by self-bludgeons, perversely on foot while the saddled horse follows--and yet in each case, in each poem, they are honored if not saved by nuanced reflection, measured perception, and the pleasures of song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eKirk Nesset is author of two books of short stories, \u003ci\u003eParadise Road\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Pittsburgh Press) and \u003ci\u003eMr. Agreeable\u003c\/i\u003e (Mammoth Books), as well as a book of translations, \u003ci\u003eAlphabet of the World \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Oklahoma Press), and a nonfiction study, \u003ci\u003eThe Stories of Raymond Carver \u003c\/i\u003e(Ohio University Press). He is recipient of the Drue Heinz Prize in Literature, a Pushcart Prize, and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, translations and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Agni, Prairie Schooner \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere, including three of Norton's anthologies: \u003ci\u003eFlash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSudden Fiction Latino\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches creative writing and literature at Allegheny College, and is writer in residence at Black Forest Writing Seminars (Freiburg, Germany).\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.6 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46237565124805,"sku":"9781936205769","price":30.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/Ug8Mu4IPw-9781936205769.webp?v=1779047643","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/saint-x-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}