{"product_id":"pages-john-matthias-9780804010191","title":"Pages: New Poems \u0026 Cuttings","description":"A unique voice among contemporary American poets, John Matthias has compiled here a major new collection, his first volume of poetry since the publication in 1995 of his retrospective collections of shorter and longer poems. Divided into three sections, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e begins with thirty short poems that range in subject from Ovid and Akhmatova to remembered friends and family. The second part is the experimental and expansive title section, engaging a sometimes humorous and sometimes horrifying sequence of contradictions and non sequiturs. The final section of the volume is a poetic pastiche of letters, journals, poems, and scientific literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries having to do with botany, botanical drawing, voyages of exploration, and related concerns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePropelled by an unyielding rhythmic energy and the juxtaposition of disparate elements, Matthias again demonstrates the force of his poetic impulse but with a greater formal variety and a wider range of subject than ever before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Matthias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804010196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804010191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Swallow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.57h x 6.41w x 0.62d","brand":"John Matthias","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517445681407,"sku":"9780804010191","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_471fb96a-12a7-4c70-ac49-7d2f7924dd76.jpg?v=1778731917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pages-john-matthias-9780804010191","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}