{"product_id":"poetry-works-mostly-matthew-oliphant-9798986854540","title":"Poetry Works, Mostly: poems good enough for the likes of you","description":"I got a bee in my bonnet over the last weekend of October. One could argue, adroitly, that I was avoiding doing other things, but I think putting together 90% of this book over 2 days counts as being productive. I went through old hard drives, notebooks, and the web to find all the poetry I've written. It's not a lot, about 60 or so, but it was fun looking for them and revisiting some I'd not thought about for a few decades. This book is sort of a \"collected works\" edition. Some of the poems I've worked hard on and some of them were written in less than a minute. I think I tend to like those the best. There are one or two that I set out to do something very specific and I think I accomplished that. Could they all be better? Of course. Getting through the final 10% took another month. Are any of them great? One is. I could work for another 30 years on some of these-that's how poetry goes. But at some point, to steal a phrase from dayjob-land, you gotta ship it. This book is a word temple. At least, it wants to be. I hope you like the book you are about to read, even if it isn't this one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Oliphant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798986854540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Studio Vo Ventures \u0026amp; Opportunities, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.28d","brand":"Matthew Oliphant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442918273279,"sku":"9798986854540","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c6024328-fc89-4b43-8bd0-ed271e43ea38.jpg?v=1777200614","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetry-works-mostly-matthew-oliphant-9798986854540","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}