{"product_id":"a-worldly-country-new-poems-9780061173844","title":"A Worldly Country: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrill of a Romance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's different when you have hiccups. \u003cbr\u003eEverything is--so many glad hands competing \u003cbr\u003efor your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot, \u003cbr\u003eor just a blast of silence from a radio. \u003cbr\u003eWhat is it? That's for you to learn \u003cbr\u003eto your dismay when, at the end of a long queue \u003cbr\u003ein the cafeteria, tray in hand, they tell you the gate closed down \u003cbr\u003eafter the Second World War. Syracuse was declared capital \u003cbr\u003eof a nation in malaise, but the directorate \u003cbr\u003ehad other, hidden goals. To proclaim logic \u003cbr\u003ea casualty of truth was one. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone's solitude (and resulting promiscuity) \u003cbr\u003eperfumed the byways of villages we had thought civilized. \u003cbr\u003eI saw you waiting for a streetcar and pressed forward. \u003cbr\u003eAlas, you were only a child in armor. Now when ribald toasts \u003cbr\u003esail round a table too fair laid out, why the consequences \u003cbr\u003eare only dust, disease and old age. Pleasant memories \u003cbr\u003eare just that. So I channel whatever \u003cbr\u003einto my contingency, a vein of mercury \u003cbr\u003ethat keeps breaking out, higher up, more on time \u003cbr\u003eevery time. Dirndls spotted with obsolete flowers, \u003cbr\u003eworn in the city again, promote open discussion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAshbery, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Ashbery \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He wrote more than twenty books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eQuick Question; Planisphere; Notes from the Air; A Worldly Country; Where Shall I Wander; \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation in 2011 and a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Obama at the White House, in 2012. Ashbery died in September 2017 at the age of ninety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317867876626,"sku":"9780061173844","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c76b627-9258-476a-aed2-eae091110d47.jpg?v=1727541759","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-worldly-country-new-poems-9780061173844","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}