{"product_id":"traveling-light-collected-and-new-poems","title":"Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems","description":"David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke. The \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e has ascribed to him a\"profoundly earthbound sanity,\" while \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e credits him with a \"plainspoken formal virtuosity\" and a \"consistent, pragmatic clarity of perception.\" His collections have garnered \u003ci\u003ePoetry's\u003c\/i\u003e Levinson and Union League Prizes, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and nominations for the American Book Award and the National Book Award. For his most recent collection, \u003ci\u003eWalt Whitman Bathing\u003c\/i\u003e, Wagoner was honored with the Ohioana Book Award in the category of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Witty, eloquent, and insightful, \u003ci\u003eTraveling Light\u003c\/i\u003e offers new and familiar treasures from a master observer of both the natural and the human worlds. In a style by turns direct and intricate, Wagoner distills the essential emotions from people's encounters with each other, with nature, and with themselves. Through his compassionate but unblinking eyes, we see ourselves and the world that surrounds us more sharply delineated. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54418426626353,"sku":"9780252068034","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3922\/2065\/files\/imageloader_7f509cb5-5833-490a-a4f6-4d1b41061ac2.jpg?v=1780526581","url":"https:\/\/bainbridgeisland.press\/products\/traveling-light-collected-and-new-poems","provider":"Bainbridge Island Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}