{"product_id":"because-of-poetry-i-have-a-really-big-house-9781848616998","title":"Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. \"Offense given; offense taken. Betrayals remembered and the betrayers unforgiven. Kent Johnson's mordant poems burn away the scrimshaw, the lace-making, the dreck that passes for poetry today, exposing the hypocrisy of our official poetry culture where a cadre of pampered bourgeoisie imagine themselves enlightened revolutionaries, and the poetics of the avant-garde has congealed into a set of implicit rules more formulaic than the traditions it seeks to supplant. A book like this is rare and necessary in every age. Let the refiner's fire break forth, lest universal darkness bury all.\"--James Chapson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kent Johnson is an avant-garde poet without an avant-garde... He is] an antidote to the sentimental courtesies and complacencies that prevent a conversation about what and where poetry might be from soon beginning.\"--Keith Tuma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Kent] Johnson's poems are like unchained pit bulls tossed into a school yard--somebody is going to get bit. But you almost have to admire all that taut muscle \u0026amp; those unstoppable jaws.\"--Ron Silliman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848616998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d","brand":"Kent Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36669739597980,"sku":"9781848616998","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bc757728-a7fc-4383-b0b4-1d10acb09864.jpg?v=1603920923","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/because-of-poetry-i-have-a-really-big-house-9781848616998","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}