{"product_id":"we-the-jury-poems","title":"We the Jury: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in \u003ci\u003eWe the Jury\u003c\/i\u003e: the hard ones, the impossible ones.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From an academic dinner party disturbing in its crassness and disaffection to a family struggling to communicate gently the permanence of death, Miller situates these poems--taut and spare, yet rich in their images and full of unexpected turns--in dilemma. He faces moments of profound discomfort, grief, and even joy with a philosopher's curiosity, a father's compassion, and an overarching inquiry at the crossroads of ethics and art: what is the poet's role in making sense of human behavior? A bomb crater-turned-lake \"exploding with lilies,\" a home lost during the late-aughts housing crash--these images and others, powerful and resonant, attempt to answer that question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Candid and vulnerable, Miller sits with us while we puzzle: we all wish we knew what to tell our children about death. But he also pushes past this and other uncertainties, vowing--and inviting us--to \"expand our relationship \/ with Death,\" and with every challenging, uncomfortable subject we meet. In the face of questions that seem impossible to answer, \u003ci\u003eWe the Jury\u003c\/i\u003e offers not a shrug, but curiosity, transparency, an opening of the arms.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328295223396,"sku":"9781571315311","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/we-the-jury-poems","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}