{"product_id":"atria-by-d-s-waldman","title":"Atria by D.S. Waldman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs seen in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtria\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eso compelling is the striking clarity of Waldman’s prose in matters of both theory and the heart.\" —Hannah Bonner,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful debut, populated with lovers and painters and musicians and poets, all of it unified by D.S. Waldman’s keen, unblinking eye.” —Patrick Phillips, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e• \"16 Debut Books to Discover from February 2026\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Refusing parallel movement, the hands\/ Those empty frames. Imagine holding\/ a Memory—or was it a photograph”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this rich, prismatic collection, D.S. Waldman guides readers through the halls of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, into encounters with Georges Braque and Frida Kahlo, and back through the landscapes of coastal California and his own rural Kentucky childhood. Along the way, formally experimental poems open into intimate explorations of fraternal loss and grief, love and romantic partnership, disability and the fragile human form, and the peculiar shapes memory takes. In one section—part essay, part crown of sonnets—the poet addresses the childhood accident that forever debilitated his hand, widening his aperture to the world and transforming his perception. Ultimately, through that experience and others, Waldman asks how—or whether—one can ever truly relate to another, or to the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring presence and absence, proximity and distance, this “gorgeous, speculative” (David Baker, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) debut announces D.S. Waldman as an intrepid new voice in poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brooklyn Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45252669046966,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0201\/8796\/files\/atria.jpg?v=1783705279","url":"https:\/\/swag.brooklynpoets.org\/products\/atria-by-d-s-waldman","provider":"Brooklyn Poets","version":"1.0","type":"link"}