{"product_id":"9780375704338","title":"Figurehead: And Other Poems","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHollander, John\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eKnopf\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8\/15\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eIn a major review in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e of John Hollander's two earlier books, \u003cb\u003eTesserae\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSelected Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, \"John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Times:\u003c\/i\u003e \"John Hollander revels in technical challenges of unusual severity and complexity, yet most of his poems also have the emotional heft of something worth pausing over and remembering.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most gifted of W. H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings--here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper. By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking, ingenious, and always clever, Hollander's poems are a joy for the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is a modern master.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43373615448319,"sku":"9780375704338","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780375704338_s600x595.jpg?v=1782319852","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780375704338","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}