{"product_id":"someday-the-plan-of-a-town","title":"Someday the Plan of a Town: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems of wayfaring and wayfinding, recovery and discovery, from “one of the best poets of his generation” (Elizabeth Lund, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\r\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, reeling from marital, parental, and societal losses, acclaimed poet Todd Boss risked everything to be at one with the world. Boss sold his belongings and began to circle the globe in a series of consecutive housesits. He alternately inhabited thatched-roof farmhouses, hillside estates, urban apartments, and lush gardens in Berlin, Barcelona, Austin, Austria, Marrakesh, Singapore, Baltimore, Auckland, and more. The poems in \u003ci\u003eSomeday the Plan of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e are his only souvenirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWritten under the influence of long walks along the Thames and the Pacific, of mornings at farmers’ markets, train stations, and mountaintop basilicas, \u003ci\u003eSomeday the Plan of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e conjures Spanish dust, English rain, French moss, Arizona cliffs, and Hungarian light, ringing all the while with timeless humor and wisdom. At the same time, these poems concern the most domestic of matters—personal grief and familial estrangement, reflections on a changing nation, and a journey of self-discovery that offers a new meaning of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs much a commentary on modern-day America as a personal history replete with grief, \u003ci\u003eSomeday the Plan of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensual, intellectual, and arrestingly musical map of one nomadic troubadour’s journey to self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46232108728530,"sku":"9780393881400","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46232108761298,"sku":"2a27a238-14b5-3941-be06-27131408937a","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_adaccdb1-4744-4141-8a0f-7c59957ec247.jpg?v=1763635930","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/someday-the-plan-of-a-town","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}