{"product_id":"poems-9780374526412","title":"Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume--filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons--that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Hesse\u003c\/b\u003e (1877-1962) was a German poet and novelist. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647452057874,"sku":"9780374526412","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/poems-9780374526412","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}