{"product_id":"nice-david-melnick-9781643621579","title":"Nice: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eCollected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Melnick's \u003ci\u003eNice: Collected Poems \u003c\/i\u003espans twenty crucial years of gay life and experimentation with poetic form, bringing together four masterworks of American literature: \u003ci\u003eEclogs\u003c\/i\u003e (1967-70), ten episodes in the urban afterlife of pastoral; \u003ci\u003ePCOET\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), written in an unknown tongue, verse for a world that's yet to be; \u003ci\u003eMen in Aida\u003c\/i\u003e (1983-85), Melnick's masterpiece, a giddy epic of queer community; and \u003ci\u003eA Pin's Fee\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), a backward glance and elegy, a cry of pain, howl of anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Melnick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643621572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643621579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 1.10d","brand":"David Melnick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068087529727,"sku":"9781643621579","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ec426f2-120b-4934-b0d7-03608576c996.jpg?v=1685416956","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nice-david-melnick-9781643621579","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}