{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-poems-selected-poems-as-poetics-paperback","title":"The Meaning of Poems: Selected Poems (as) Poetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Berger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Berger takes up the question with a sly, ironic wit that interrogates the idea of poetics and subjects his own assumptions and biases to a ruthless and delightfully honest self-critique. Many poets will see their own agon reflected here. \"My project is to slog\/ my mortality in the dried vein\/\/ of lyric, and to claim\/\/ at last my incapacity\/\/ as my own.\" Yet this is not a poetry of exhaustion, but of self-renewing vitality: Yeats' foul rag and bone shop or Manny Faber's termite art, restless, eating away at its own boundaries. Subversive and disarming, Berger charts his development as a poet with humor and panache. It makes for one hell of a ride. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47484258418866,"sku":"9781963908282","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d8950c262fd610bcfcd07a32cbb64dd2.webp?v=1779273373","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-meaning-of-poems-selected-poems-as-poetics-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}