{"product_id":"arguments-poems-9780892556458","title":"Arguments: Poems","description":"In \"Anima Hominis,\" Yeats writes, \"We make out of our quarrels with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.\" \u003cem\u003eArguments\u003c\/em\u003e by Benjamin Gucciardi takes that inner quarrel as its starting point. Written in a time of environmental collapse and social unrest, these poems confront the contradictions that shape contemporary life: how to make a self, a family and an ethical life within exploitative systems that demand complicity. Moving through domestic spaces, a climate activist camp, and landscapes of the American West, the collection blends lyric and formal poems to ask urgent questions: What responsibilities to we bear to one another? How are we entangled in the systems we seek to dismantle? What place does violent resistance hold? How do we sustain an inner life in a material-driven world--and how, in the face of grief, do we balance private mourning with collective obligation? \u003cem\u003eArguments\u003c\/em\u003e turns to language as a practice of care, tending the fragile links between self and community, human and non-human, the living and the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Gucciardi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Persea Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892556458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGucciardi, Benjamin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Originally from San Francisco, California, Benjamin Gucciardi is the author of \u003ci\u003eArguments\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, and \u003cem\u003eWest Portal\u003c\/em\u003e, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and named a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eTimeless Tips for Simple Sabotage\u003c\/em\u003e, chosen by Elena Passarello as the winner of the 2020 \u003cem\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/em\u003e Chapbook contest, and \u003cem\u003eI Ask My Sister's Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e. His poems appear in \u003cem\u003e32 Poems, AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, POETRY\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere, and have been featured in On Being's \"Poetry Unbound,\" Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He has received the James Dickey Poetry Prize from \u003cem\u003eFive Points\u003c\/em\u003e, the Booth Prize for Unexpected Literature and the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from \u003cem\u003eHarpur Palate, \u003c\/em\u003e as well as awards from the Sewanee Writer's Conference, Jentel Foundation, PLAYA and Artsmith. In addition to writing, he works with newcomer youth in Oakland through Soccer Without Borders, an organization he founded in 2006.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Benjamin Gucciardi \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":49001561391261,"sku":"9780892556458","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_09cd0118-52c8-42fc-8efc-7d54d6cc2a65.jpg?v=1791979991","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/arguments-poems-9780892556458","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}