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With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, Memory without passion would be better lost.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752747278609,"sku":"NGR9780822967194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008378142993,"sku":"NIN9780822967194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51330013495569,"sku":"CIN0822967197VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822967197.jpg?v=1762422842"},{"product_id":"translations-from-the-flesh-book-elton-glaser-9780822962342","title":"Translations from the Flesh","description":"Translations from the Flesh, Elton Glaser's seventh full-length collection of poetry, is driven by the powerful engines of love and desire. In poems long and brief, playful and intense, Glaser evokes what it feels like \"to fall into \/ Love and its infinite mistakes.\" In a style that might be described as \"flamboyant stoicism\" (a phrase from Simon Callow,) he explores our human urgencies and weaknesses, following wherever our appetites lead us, whether hormonal or spiritual, cravings that we struggle to understand. The voice that says \"Apprentice me to mysteries of the flesh\" speaks for everyone intent on making sense of the body's restless yearning for fulfillment. These poems, with their witty brio and passionate precision of language, agree with Gerald Stern that \"the brain \/ is the best organ for love.\" At the same time, they are not afraid to get down in the dirt, among the more primitive pleasures. Whatever their bent, from moony aspirations to \"rare positions only the wicked know,\" the poems express Glaser's mission to give voice to those deep pressures that move us, body and soul: \"I put my native tongue \/ To work, open to \/ The dark instincts of ecstasy.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008585498897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008589168913,"sku":"NIN9780822962342","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822962349.jpg?v=1762422494"},{"product_id":"i-have-my-own-song-for-it-book-elton-glaser-9781884836824","title":"I Have My Own Song for it","description":"I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio gathers together 117 poems by 85 poets for a fresh perspective on the Buckeye State. Not since 1911 has there been a comprehensive collection of poems written about Ohio. And this anthology is especially relevant as Ohio celebrates its 200th year as a state. It could be called Ohio's bicentennial gift to itself. These poems, written by such celebrated Ohio natives as James Wright and Mary Oliver, and by accomplished if less well known poets like Ruth L. Schwartz and Rachel Langille, offer a virtual tour of people and places in the state, traveling around Ohio's lakes and rivers, farms and open country, small towns and large cities. In resonant language and compelling imagery, in shapely verse and lines responsive to the moment's impulse, the poems bring Ohio to its citizens and, beyond the borders of the state, to lovers of poetry everywhere. The perspective may be personal or historical, close-up or wide-ranging, celebratory or otherwise, but each poem becomes part of the state's legacy passed on to future generations, a collective record of how Ohio appears to itself and to others at the begining of the 21st century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51330060976401,"sku":"CIN1884836828VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423662539025,"sku":"CIN1884836828G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1884836828.jpg?v=1751092425"},{"product_id":"soul-patch-book-elton-glaser-9781946830418","title":"Soul Patch","description":"Elton Glaser' s tenth collection drafts a portrait of \" a world in love with its dying,\" touching on the cruelties and absurdities of public life and the pain of personal reflection: \" We don' t know \/ How deep the dark goes down \/ Before it reaches bottom.\" In search of some reconciliation among the impulses that pull us part, he resolves: \" I' m working on a hybrid between \/ The hormones and the sacraments.\" And what can a poet do but offer: these little reckonings of Warning and desire, these lines bred somewhere beyond The unruly reaches of the moon, beyond the lectures and corrections. Soul Patch was selected for the 2025 Off the Grid Prize by poet Gregory Orr, who describes it as a work \" full of strong lyric wit and moral fervor.\" It is also full of fight. Glaser' s irreverence and fury (\" I take my adrenaline straight, with a dash of bitters\" ) act as a balm, a proverbial patch in these times of daily injury, bracing readers for the next blow. \" Listen,\" the poet urges. \" Sometimes things have to get ugly \/ Before beauty shows itself.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52580484841745,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52580485431569,"sku":"NIN9781946830418","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781946830418.jpg?v=1760994515"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-elton-glaser.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}