{"product_id":"four-nose-jobs-a-day-poems","title":"Four Nose Jobs a Day: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrief and silliness share the same pages in this book, often inside the same short poem. Devendra Banhart, the musician and visual artist, turns absurd images toward love, loss and plain gratitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond poetry collection by Devendra Banhart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrief poems about love, death, grief and gratitude, written with an absurdist sense of humor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 200 pages, Unnamed Press, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBanhart's poems are short and frequently ridiculous, and they tend to swerve from a joke toward something tender. They take up the heart and the spirit, the people who have died, and the ordinary strangeness of having feelings at all. Laughter here sits beside sorrow rather than replacing it, and a poem that opens on nonsense can close on consolation or thanks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListeners who know Banhart's records will recognize the pairing of play and melancholy. Readers new to him need no background: the language is plain and the poems are easy to enter one at a time, in any order. In these poems, laughter is one of the ways mourning gets done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDevendra Banhart was born in Houston in 1980 and raised largely in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a Grammy-nominated musician and songwriter and a visual artist whose work has been shown at SFMOMA and MoMA PS1. His first poetry book was published by Featherproof Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unnamed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48026690748565,"sku":"NEW-ING-1961884887","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/upload-1789784846717.jpg?v=1789784848","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/four-nose-jobs-a-day-poems","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}