{"product_id":"it-becomes-you-poems","title":"It Becomes You: Poems","description":"\"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic.\" (The Corresponder)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the backs of the books I love and am terrified by,\u003cbr\u003ethe great thinkers stare back at me\u003cbr\u003ewith little encouragement.\u003cbr\u003eI am prepared to follow them anywhere!\u003cbr\u003e―from \"Ago\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson's It Becomes You explore the divergent conditions by which we're perpetually defined―the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47855991914722,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-06-3-6.75-503","price":31.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_502_KptzwHoIG.jpg?v=1780489320","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/it-becomes-you-poems","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}