{"product_id":"nice-collected-poems-9781643621579","title":"Nice: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eCollected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Melnick's \u003ci\u003eNice: Collected Poems \u003c\/i\u003espans twenty crucial years of gay life and experimentation with poetic form, bringing together four masterworks of American literature: \u003ci\u003eEclogs\u003c\/i\u003e (1967-70), ten episodes in the urban afterlife of pastoral; \u003ci\u003ePCOET\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), written in an unknown tongue, verse for a world that's yet to be; \u003ci\u003eMen in Aida\u003c\/i\u003e (1983-85), Melnick's masterpiece, a giddy epic of queer community; and \u003ci\u003eA Pin's Fee\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), a backward glance and elegy, a cry of pain, howl of anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643621579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"David Melnick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42870607577269,"sku":"9781643621579","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c826c494-7023-4e06-9a51-e38061d0788c.jpg?v=1684270526","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nice-collected-poems-9781643621579","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}