{"product_id":"another-way-to-play-poems-1960-2017","title":"Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAnother Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichael Lally\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781609808303\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSeven Stories Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e560\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a '60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, \u003ci\u003eAnother Way to Play\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between. Lally is not a poet of any one school or style, but a poet of his own inner promptings; whether casual, impassioned, or ironic, his words are unmistakably his own. Here is a poet who can hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously, and fuse them, with pathos and humor, into his own idiosyncratic verbal art. As Lally himself writes: \"I suffered, I starved, and so did my kids, \/ I did what I did for poetry I thought \/and I never sold out, and even when I did \/ nobody bought.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017 | Michael Lally | Paperback | 9781609808303 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1785638","offer_id":50852821139714,"sku":"1785638","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81pxGW038mL.jpg?v=1792768007","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/another-way-to-play-poems-1960-2017","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}