{"product_id":"9781571315359-north-american-stadiums","title":"North American Stadiums","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An engrossing urban pastoral . These distinctive poems deserve a wide audience.” —WASHINGTON POST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, \u003cem\u003eNorth American Stadiums\u003c\/em\u003e is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You were supposed to find God here \/ the signs said.” In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small—of a city, of a family, of a shirt—is unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement: a field “lit like the heart \/ of the night,” black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA map “bleached \/ pale by time and weather,” \u003cem\u003eNorth American Stadiums\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the places we inhabit and how those places, in turn, shape us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944447946849,"sku":"9781571315359","price":13.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29671581.jpg?v=1748549544","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781571315359-north-american-stadiums","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}