{"product_id":"of-the-great-house-a-book-of-poems-9780811208352","title":"Of the Great House: A Book of Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A book of poems should have exactly the same fullness and risk and lay itself open to the same judgment as a life,\" says Allen Grossman. \u003cem\u003eOf the Great House\u003c\/em\u003e, which includes sections of \u003cem\u003eA Harlot's Hire\u003c\/em\u003e (1961), Grossman's first published book, as well as his most recent poetry, presents an anatomy of the poet's working life. The title poem invokes \"the sighted singer, in a\/Passionate, laboring house,\" who confronts those figures in his unconscious which influence and interfere with poetic vision, braving the necessary destructions until \"there is nothing in place of what\/I know, the only thing that is--the world.\" Part II, \"The Pictures in a Man's Life,\" seeks out relationships among the haunting, inspiring, \"demonically incoherent facts of life in the world--the poet's parents, yellowwoods blooming on a lawn, closeness to an earlier self. \"The Dream Which Wakes the Sleeper Does Not End\" contains poems from an earlier life, and \u003cem\u003eOf the Great House\u003c\/em\u003e closes with \"An Inventory of Destructions,\" a summing and a summoning: \"the poet speaks to the unborn in the\/language of the born, and to the born he speaks\/The language of the unborn--Break down and build \/Destructions are of the poet. Death is of God.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen Grossman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.97h x 5.23w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811208352\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40660750172275,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ef3726f4-7807-47fa-aab3-3addc7b7f568.jpg?v=1673449407","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/of-the-great-house-a-book-of-poems-9780811208352","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}