{"product_id":"selected-poems-1933-1988","title":"Selected Poems 1933-1988","description":"Gavin Ewart, one of Britain's finest and most original poets, is presented here in a half-century retrospective. His subjects various and his approach toothsomely scathing, he believes: \"good light verse is better than bad heavy verse any day of the week.\" Consider one of his briefest poems, \"The Lover Reflects: Afterwards\" - \"Perhaps I was greedy. I know I should be grateful\/You wanted a snack and I wanted a plateful.\" An inventive technical master (creator of the \"Ewart\" form), he stalks his favorite prey--hypocrisy, love's foibles, the \"pseuds\"--with a razor-sharp wit. \"There is iron in irony, although you smile,\" he writes in one poem: \"...I have my language, you have yours\/ a lower-archy is a hierarchy viewed from above.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833683030221,"sku":"9780811210546","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_73c1e3db-e8b0-4a6e-8e6a-868207cd749c.jpg?v=1790892797","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/selected-poems-1933-1988","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}