{"product_id":"selected-poems-1933-1988-gavin-ewart-9780811210546","title":"Selected Poems 1933-1988","description":"Gavin Ewart, one of Britain's finest and most original poets, is presented here in a half-century retrospective. His subjects various and his approach toothsomely scathing, he believes: \"good light verse is better than bad heavy verse any day of the week.\" Consider one of his briefest poems, \"The Lover Reflects: Afterwards\" - \"Perhaps I was greedy. I know I should be grateful\/You wanted a snack and I wanted a plateful.\" An inventive technical master (creator of the \"Ewart\" form), he stalks his favorite prey--hypocrisy, love's foibles, the \"pseuds\"--with a razor-sharp wit. \"There is iron in irony, although you smile,\" he writes in one poem: \"...I have my language, you have yours\/ a lower-archy is a hierarchy viewed from above.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Ewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811210545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811210546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.29h x 5.64w x 0.59d","brand":"Gavin Ewart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517461475583,"sku":"9780811210546","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77268149-e6eb-4f0a-bd1f-265c8f278dd6.jpg?v=1778731945","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selected-poems-1933-1988-gavin-ewart-9780811210546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}