{"product_id":"apples-from-shinar-a-book-of-poems-9780819571670","title":"Apples from Shinar: A Book of Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA special centenary edition of this American poet's critically acclaimed collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApples from Shinar was Hyam Plutzik's second complete collection. Originally published in 1959 as a part of Wesleyan University Press's newly minted poetry series, the collection includes \"The Shepherd\"--a section of the book-length poem \"Horatio,\" which earned Plutzik a finalist position for the Pulitzer Prize. \"The love and the words and the simplicity,\" that mark Plutzik's poetry, writes Philip Booth, \"are all here [in \u003ci\u003eApples from Shinar\u003c\/i\u003e], and the poems come peacefully, and wonderfully, alive.\" With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik's birth and will introduce a new generation of readers to the work of one of the best mid-century American poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819571670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.11h x 6.40w x 0.52d","brand":"Hyam Plutzik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52072231633077,"sku":"9780819571670","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b6b40e51-39b3-4320-ae83-8c10b82cdf38.jpg?v=1764688169","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/apples-from-shinar-a-book-of-poems-9780819571670","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}