{"product_id":"homage-to-the-last-avant-garde-9781905700950","title":"Homage to the Last Avant-Garde","description":"Homage contains a wide variety of work representing all strands of Johnson's work: versions from the Greek, traduced to an extraordinary degree; anti-war poems, overflowing with rage; stink-bombs tossed in the direction of some famous poets, mostly meant in an ironic, joshing way. But not all. And then there are memoir poems of persons met and places visited, that may well be documentary in nature, or may also be artfully disguised. Memory is, after all, an awkward thing, and not to be trusted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnson, Kent:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kent Johnson grew up in Uruguay and worked during the 1980s as a literacy teacher in rural regions of Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution. He is author, editor, or translator of twenty-some books and chapbooks, including three collections of poetry recently published abroad in translation. Translated into a dozen languages and appearing in more than twenty countries, his work has been selected for awards from Pushcart, the Illinois Arts Council, PEN, and The National Endowment for the Arts. In 2004, he was named State Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Community College Board. He lives in Freeport, Illinois.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433385267474,"sku":"9781905700950","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91c5029d-8575-4998-8ac6-bdeaf537a8e5.jpg?v=1729570111","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/homage-to-the-last-avant-garde-9781905700950","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}