{"product_id":"beckmann-variations-other-poems-michael-heller-9781848610873","title":"Beckmann Variations \u0026 Other Poems","description":"Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles's shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max Beckmann. Heller navigates, sometimes with Yeats as his Virgil, through a gallery of Beckmann's pictures, seeing them as uniquely bringing home contemporary civilization's catastrophic impulses (\"as if days were not for sanity\"), impulses at once horrific and unsettling yet strangely beautiful and restorative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Heller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848610874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848610873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Michael Heller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486199165183,"sku":"9781848610873","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f60afca-ea27-4fc0-ae27-f67b526205e8.jpg?v=1778054308","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beckmann-variations-other-poems-michael-heller-9781848610873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}