{"product_id":"ars-poetica-clay-reynolds-9781881515487","title":"Ars Poetica: A Postmodern Parable","description":"In the caveat to this irreverent and hilarious satire, Clay Reynolds writes, \"No poet writing today could be this lucky, this tragic, this infamous. Indeed, it wouldn't be tolerated.\" No, one will have to admit, it wouldn't. Offered in the same vein as Jane Smiley's \u003ci\u003eMoo\u003c\/i\u003e and Richard Russo's Straight Man, Reynolds's \u003ci\u003eArs Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e explores the life of a modern-day Don Juan, a hedonistically ambitious poetaster of our own times, a self-styled Lothario, but, as the tragicomedy ultimately reveals, a man who ultimately discovers that he has more in common with Coleridge's mariner than with any swashbuckling versifier of old. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt times a light-hearted romp through the wasteland world of contemporary creative writing where only the phony seem to survive and prosper, at times a vicious attack on the hypocrisy of political correctness and contemporary sexual mores, and at times a sordid slog through the back alleys of a single soul's despair, \u003ci\u003eArs Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e evolves as a parable of a passionate poet in a postmodern world, one fraught with the perils of pretense and one that offers meaningful achievement only at the price of the poetic soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clay Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1881515486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781881515487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2003 pg. 61","brand":"Clay Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519574126847,"sku":"9781881515487","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1700742f-7d67-40fc-8df3-6590ec98536b.jpg?v=1778737763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ars-poetica-clay-reynolds-9781881515487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}