false 6465866 1 <DIV><DIV>Volume 13 in the Swenson Award Series, <I>Tomorrow's Living Room</I> offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's world reflect our own (they may in fact be universal), but we're considering them through completely new terms of engagement.<br> <br> Selected by, and with a foreword by, Billy Collins.<br> <br> The annual Swenson competition, named for May Swenson, honors her as one of America’s most provocative and vital writers. In John Hollander’s words, she was “one of our few unquestionably major poets.”</DIV> 6656339 15 6 2009 Tomorrow's Living Room: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award) total:7|5:2|4:0|3:5|2:0|1:0| 7 25 15 4 6465866 0874217466 9780874217469 7 4 3.57 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6465866-tomorrow-s-living-room 3 0 false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 10:49:17 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 10:50:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6465866 0874217466 9780874217469 7 4 3.57 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6465866-tomorrow-s-living-room 0 1 false Sat Oct 17 03:10:28 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 03:18:58 -0700 2009 by Jason Whitmarsh

The mannequins are all in love with you
and too depressed to say it. The cashier
flirts with another cashier, who eyes you,
who eyes the sales rack of wool pants.
Behind each mirror hunches an old man
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