{"product_id":"selected-poems-1933-1988","title":"Selected Poems 1933-1988","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSelected Poems 1933-1988\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGavin Ewart\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0811210553\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1988\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eGavin Ewart, one of Britain's finest and most original poets, is presented here in a half-century retrospective. His subjects various and his approach toothsomely scathing, he believes: \"good light verse is better than bad heavy verse any day of the week.\" Consider one of his briefest poems, \"The Lover Reflects: Afterwards\" - \"Perhaps I was greedy. I know I should be grateful\/You wanted a snack and I wanted a plateful.\" An inventive technical master (creator of the \"Ewart\" form), he stalks his favorite prey--hypocrisy, love's foibles, the \"pseuds\"--with a razor-sharp wit. \"There is iron in irony, although you smile,\" he writes in one poem: \"...I have my language, you have yours\/ a lower-archy is a hierarchy viewed from above.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Selected Poems 1933-1988 | Gavin Ewart | Paperback | 0811210553 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1642571","offer_id":50707355926786,"sku":"1642571","price":25.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41MWKE7CCVL.jpg?v=1791695367","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-1933-1988","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}