{"product_id":"quote-poet-unquote-contemporary-quotations-on-poets-and-poetry-9781556592706","title":"Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best-read men in the Western world\" is how \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e describes Irish poet-critic Dennis O'Driscoll. \u003ci\u003eQuote Poet Unquote\u003c\/i\u003e, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-related, proves that judgment spot on. The book grew out of O'Driscoll's column \"Pickings and Choosings\" for \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and contains nearly two thousand smart sayings obsessively gleaned from six hundred sources--including powerhouse critics, prize-winning poets, world leaders, and newspaper headlines. The voices in this volume are by turns provocative, deadpan, humorous, and inspirational: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you dribble past five defenders, it isn't called sheer prose.\"--Tom Leonard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.\"--Helen Vendler, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry--which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.\"--Michael Donaghy, \u003ci\u003eVerse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized by headings as forthright as \"What Is It Anyway?\" as playful as \"Prose and Cons\" and \"No, Thanks\" (on bad poetry), this collection is both a reference work and a supremely entertaining take on the poetry world. \u003ci\u003eQuote Poet Unquote\u003c\/i\u003e offers incontrovertible evidence--thousands of pieces of it--that poetry, and the passionate discourse it generates, is alive and kicking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e, former editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of essays. He lives in Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556592706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 6.23w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2008 pg. 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dennis O'Driscoll","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42599682867381,"sku":"9781556592706","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b1ac5507-8f34-457f-a88c-6481471fdcfd.jpg?v=1673999924","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/quote-poet-unquote-contemporary-quotations-on-poets-and-poetry-9781556592706","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}