{"product_id":"sarments-john-james-9781848615786","title":"Sarments: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This collection is an essential delight; a 'book resonant of a life \/ neither following nor in pursuit', gathering old and new work all equally fresh. As the epigraph to the first poem attests, '\u003cem\u003eone does not work out of a reaction against but rather out of affection for something\u003c\/em\u003e.' Like Mayakovsky, John James has produced a body of work perfectly able to marry lyricism and coarseness, rage and tenderness - and, like the Futurist, to weld the aesthetic to the social. Here is that rarest poet: able to adequately respond to pleasure, and equally able to create it. The selection spans 50 years of work in all its subtlety of tone and address - a hybrid of a Welsh 'praise' tradition, playfully mannered English reserve, and New York School exuberance. This is a poetry deftly attuned to various musics, overtly engaged with the visual arts, yet just as happy out in the streets at home and abroad - and more than partial to a walk in the countryside. The poems of the last decade are singular in their 'reach toward the poetry of kindred \/ where we speak in our work as we seldom do otherwise.' Embrace this \u003cem\u003eNew and Selected\u003c\/em\u003e James: here is an effervescent poetry that can leave nobody indifferent.\" --Simon Perril\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"James is decidedly un-English in his love of French and German poetry, in his unembarrassed (and unembarrassing) celebration of the pleasures of the flesh, and in his Marxist and republican politics - which seem to legitimate a taste for the finer things on the grounds of international solidarity against a British suppression of the capacity for joy ... John James is one of the great sensualists of twentieth-century lyric poetry.\" --John Wilkinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848615787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848615786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"John James","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46136079679743,"sku":"9781848615786","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c22fccab-e2c6-4284-a116-e865c00b87f6.jpg?v=1726415621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sarments-john-james-9781848615786","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}