{"product_id":"sidebend-world-charles-harper-webb-9780822965619","title":"Sidebend World","description":"With eleven full-length books and a spate of major prizes, Charles Harper Webb--once a well-kept secret in the poetry underground--has gained national recognition as a writer of poems that are complex yet reader-friendly. \u003ci\u003eSidebend World\u003c\/i\u003e shows clearly why Webb has been called one of the most inventive, incisive, and psychologically astute poets writing in the U.S.A. today, as well as one of the most entertaining. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Webb is celebrated for his use of humor; yet even his funniest poems rise, as the best humor must, from serious concerns. Powered by an uncompromising but compassionate intelligence\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean abiding wonder at the beautiful strangeness of the world, \u003ci\u003e Sidebend World\u003c\/i\u003e explores with clarity and vividness a wide range of emotions--love to hate, tenderness to brutality; yet, above all, Webb is a poet of praise. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a distinctive voice at once provocative and endearing, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, \u003ci\u003eSidebend World \u003c\/i\u003e\"begins in delight and ends in wisdom.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Harper Webb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822965615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822965619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Charles Harper Webb","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926549627135,"sku":"9780822965619","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_944e2808-56ef-4b3a-8a42-b3d4ab264f3e.jpg?v=1681083691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sidebend-world-charles-harper-webb-9780822965619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}