{"product_id":"poetry-works-mostly-poems-good-enough-for-the-likes-of-you-9798986854540","title":"Poetry Works, Mostly: poems good enough for the likes of you","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Oliphant\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Studio Vo Ventures \u0026amp; Opportunities, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Studio Vo Ventures \u0026amp; Opportunities, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI got a bee in my bonnet over the last weekend of October. One could argue, adroitly, that I was avoiding doing other things, but I think putting together 90% of this book over 2 days counts as being productive. I went through old hard drives, notebooks, and the web to find all the poetry I've written. It's not a lot, about 60 or so, but it was fun looking for them and revisiting some I'd not thought about for a few decades. This book is sort of a \"collected works\" edition. Some of the poems I've worked hard on and some of them were written in less than a minute. I think I tend to like those the best. There are one or two that I set out to do something very specific and I think I accomplished that. Could they all be better? Of course. Getting through the final 10% took another month. Are any of them great? One is. I could work for another 30 years on some of these-that's how poetry goes. But at some point, to steal a phrase from dayjob-land, you gotta ship it. This book is a word temple. At least, it wants to be. I hope you like the book you are about to read, even if it isn't this one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46448568696983,"sku":"9798986854540","price":1192.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798986854540.webp?v=1769144094","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/poetry-works-mostly-poems-good-enough-for-the-likes-of-you-9798986854540","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}