{"product_id":"the-city-keeps-selected-and-new-poems-1966-2014-9781940696317","title":"The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966-2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Godfrey's masterful body of work has sustained its attentive, lovesick, unruly energy for over fifty years. \u003ci\u003eThe City Keeps \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the best poems from his thirteen collections, plus some previously uncollected. \"Dedicated to those who people the City of New York,\" Godfrey's work is populated, elusive, and geometric, but also full of tenderness and light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith an enemy\u003cbr\u003elike daylight who needs\u003cbr\u003ethe psychology dime\u003cbr\u003eHips do the work\u003cbr\u003eand I cross the world\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Godfrey \u003c\/b\u003e was born in Massena, N.Y. in 1945. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1967, and took a B.S. in Nursing from Columbia University in 1994. He has received fellowships from the General Electric Foundation (1984), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Z Foundation (2013). He retired in 2011 after 17 years as a nurse clinician in HIV\/AIDS. He has lived in the East Village of Manhattan since the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940696317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"John Godfrey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351303676085,"sku":"9781940696317","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eb2ca728-70e2-4f2e-b009-3940e080c734.jpg?v=1746540925","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-city-keeps-selected-and-new-poems-1966-2014-9781940696317","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}