{"product_id":"9780374617646","title":"Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters : Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLet's go back far as we dare\n\u003cbr\u003eto go back to that land bridge\n\u003cbr\u003emade of untrusting earth \u0026amp; ice,\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eto a boorish faith in our rhythm\n\u003cbr\u003eof footsteps, the fleeting mantra\n\u003cbr\u003eof wordless dreams . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters, the collaborative work of an elder statesman of American poetry and a young emerging poet. In early 2020, Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung began a conversation in verse that carried them through the COVID pandemic. The result is a work that is at once a document of the poets' inner and outer worlds and also a single and singular vision of what it is to live now and to look back on the epic scale of human history and artistic expression that stretches over millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus \u0026 Giroux Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49903705260280,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":43.08,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780374617646-1.jpg?v=1783592057","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780374617646","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}