{"product_id":"bluestone-new-and-selected-poems-9780374535506","title":"Bluestone: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo men grapple with jumper cables, trying \"to make a stand \/\/ in this last corner of our realm; machinery . . .\" A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to \"the original essence, the masculine \/ criminal salt.\" A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle by his girlfriend's father. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun's subjects are often quotidian--but his treatment of them never is. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic.\u003cbr\u003eLasdun has been winning acclaim since his first collection, 1988's \u003ci\u003eA Jump Start\u003c\/i\u003e--Helen Vendler has lauded his ability to give \"brisk shape to contemporary and classical events\"; \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has praised the \"sharp, slicing imagery\" of his work. Now, in \u003ci\u003eBluestone\u003c\/i\u003e, which selects from all three of his previous collections and includes poems from his fourth, \u003ci\u003eWater Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e, previously available only in the U.K., readers will be able to appreciate the full sweep of this capacious talent: his delicate wit, his gift for invention, his keen observational eye. It is a gathering that affirms Lasdun's position as, to quote Anthony Hecht, one of \"the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374535506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2015 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"James Lasdun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636669083804,"sku":"9780374535506","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_445ff4c4-13ae-4a78-9b04-3080ad448561.jpg?v=1603842592","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bluestone-new-and-selected-poems-9780374535506","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}