{"product_id":"new-and-selected-poems-1","title":"New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNew and Selected Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichael Ryan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780618408542\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin Harcourt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e160\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\u003eMichael Ryan's New and Selected Poems is the first collection to appear in fifteen years from this acclaimed and masterly poet. Comprising fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volumes and thirty-one brilliant new poems, it displays the wit and passion he has brought to universal themes throughout his career. In both dramatic lyrics and complex narratives, Ryan renders the world with startling clarity, freshness, and intimacy. \u003cbr\u003eRyan's poems are filled with the stuff of everyday life: What-a-Burger, Space Invaders, \"the hood ornament \/ on some chopped down hot rod of the apocalypse.\" He observes his subjects in carefully wrought detail and with a fierce compassion, describing \"stupid posters of rock stars\" in the bedroom of a murdered teenager, or a homeless boy \"straggle-haired, bloated, \/ eyes shining like ice.\" As Ryan writes of others, in a final \"Reminder\" to himself: \"their light --their light -- \/ pulls so surely. Let it.\" \u003cbr\u003eThis long-awaited collection shows Ryan at the height of his powers. As William H. Pritchard said in The Nation, \"Unlike too many poets who tumble into print at the first twitch of feeling, Ryan takes time to listen to himself, and such listening contributes immeasurably to the subtlety of his address to the reader . . . [He] reminds us on every page that poems can be about lives, and about them in ways most urgent and delicate.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"New and Selected Poems | Michael Ryan | Hardcover | 9780618408542 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1730494 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48167819739288,"sku":"1730494","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71uwGRRpNyS.jpg?v=1771955163","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/new-and-selected-poems-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}