{"product_id":"the-bird-in-the-glasshouse-knute-skinner-9781915022035","title":"The Bird in the Glasshouse","description":"Praise for Knute Skinner's poetry: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner has poems that for sheer beauty take your head off.\" -- John Gardner, on \"A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you want to know how real poetry reads, buy this book, read it, and keep it.\" -- Leonard Blackstone, on \"Selected Poems\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner does the lot: the sacred, the profane, the formal and the loose, and does them all wonderfully well.\" -- John W. Sexton, Poetry Ireland News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As fine and engaging a testament to the complicated nature of simple pleasures as any in contemporary poetry.\" -- Wayne Burroughs, Staples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner's mischievous eye never takes the ordinary for granted.\" -- Jennifer Matthews, Southword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a time when many poets cannot resist the grand gesture, Skinner's art is the achievement of presence in the places we go to: in field, kitchen, bar, dictionary, anecdote, joke, love bower.\" -- James Liddy, on \"Learning to Spell 'Zucchini'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purposes, weird and tragic characters, and should be read from start to finish.\" -- Aidan Murphy, on \"The Bears \u0026amp; Other Poems\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner works a seemingly homespun Gothicity which is yet quietly artful in the way it jolts the reader out of the even tenor of pleasant expectations.\" -- Tom Hubbard, Poetry Ireland Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are very few books of poetry that you would run back into a burning building to retrieve. Make no mistake, 'An Upside Down World' is one of them.\" -- Frank Golden, on \"An Upside Down World\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Knute Skinner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915022037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915022035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Salmon Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Knute Skinner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054295576831,"sku":"9781915022035","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f4ae9dc9-9e3b-4c46-bc09-b083f4ced533.jpg?v=1685029127","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bird-in-the-glasshouse-knute-skinner-9781915022035","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}