{"product_id":"rocket-and-lightship-hardcover-by-adam-kirsch","title":"Rocket and Lightship Hardcover by Adam Kirsch","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eWW Norton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2014-11-18)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e320\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780393243468\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e462.67\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.59 x 15.24 x 2.54\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays from a “great poet-critic-intellectual” (\u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e).\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam Kirsch has been described as \"elegant and astute…[a] critic of the very first order\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E. M. Forster, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. Kirsch quotes G. M. Hopkins: \"Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone.\" So shines literature, in these unflinchingly bold and provocative essays—as an illuminating, regenerative, and immortalizing force.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Kirsch\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poetry and criticism. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e’s Weekend Review section and has written for publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46553080299681,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780393243468","price":29.45,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780393243468.jpg?v=1781725803","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/rocket-and-lightship-hardcover-by-adam-kirsch","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}