{"product_id":"the-rock-poems-9781640093942","title":"The Rock: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn excellent introduction to \"the best and most representative American poet\" (Harold Bloom), this palm-sized, keepsake edition is the first separate publication of this remarkable collection of late poems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1955, shortly before his death, Wallace Stevens earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens\u003c\/i\u003e. The collection gathered most of his life's work, and featured 25 previously unpublished poems. Stevens imagined that those poems would stand alone as their own volume--\u003ci\u003eThe Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. Featuring some of his most memorable poems, including \"Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is a sublime selection of works from one of American's most brilliant, beloved modernist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"After the reader has admired certain lines because Shakespeare might have written them, he begins to admire them because only Stevens could\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Robert Fitzgerald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"One might as well argue with the Evening Star and find fault with so much wit and grace and intelligence . . . such an overwhelming and exquisite command both of the worlds and of the rhythms of our language; such charm and irony, such natural and philosophical breadth of sympathy, such dignity and magnanimity\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Randall Jarrell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640093942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.90h x 4.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663895982236,"sku":"9781640093942","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_64a602ee-05ea-4901-acc5-dcc5672604d6.jpg?v=1603905316","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-rock-poems-9781640093942","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}