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A surprising variety of poets have penned tributes to the brew; their tantalizing poems include Robert Burns's \"John Barleycorn,\" Edgar Allan Poe's \"Lines on Ale,\" Frank O'Hara's \"Beer for Breakfast,\" Sylvia Plath's \"The Beer Tastes Good,\" Muriel Rukeyser's \"Beer and Bacon,\" and Tom Waits's \"Warm Beer and Cold Women.\" Whether pulling up to the celestial bar in Keats's \"Mermaid Tavern\" or to the grittier, jazzier one in Carl Sandburg's \"Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio\" (where \"the cartoonists weep in their beer\"), lovers of beer and poetry are sure to find something to celebrate in these tantalizing pages.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50136576360721,"sku":"CIN1101907916VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105811886353,"sku":"CIN1101907916G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52384775897361,"sku":"CIN1101907916LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101907916.jpg?v=1785935046"},{"product_id":"conversation-pieces-book-kurt-brown-9780307265456","title":"Conversation Pieces","description":"Favorite authors discuss the day jobs they left behind. These authors tell good tales. Contributory autobiographical essays by: John Grisham, Pat Conroy, Howard Bahr, Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Connie May Fowler, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, William Gay, Winston Groom, Silas House, Suzanne Hudson, Joshilyn Jackson, Barb Johnson, Cassandra King, Janis Owens, Michelle Richmond, Clay Risen, George Singleton, Matthew Teague, Daniel Wallace, Brad Watson, Steve Yarbrough and Sonny Brewer. Cover picture by Barry Moser.If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, clocking in at the culture factory, then this is the book you've been waiting for. Sonny Brewer, Editor Fairhope, Alabama.These authors tell good tales. If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, clocking in at the culture factory, then this is the book you've been waiting for. 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Poets from ancient times to the present have celebrated the harvest of our gardens, fields, and orchards.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The delectable cornucopia of poems harvested in this volume includes many beloved old chestnuts, such as Robert Frost's \"After Apple-Picking,\" Emily Dickinson's \"Forbidden fruit a flavor has,\" Gwendolyn Brooks's \"The Bean Eaters,\" and the famous chilled plums in William Carlos Williams's \"This Is Just to Say.\" But there are many other delights to discover as well: Pablo Neruda's \"Ode to the Artichoke,\" Seamus Heaney's \"Blackberry Picking,\" Jane Hirshfield's \"Green-Striped Melons,\" Eugenio Montale's \"The Lemons,\" Charles Simic's \"Watermelons,\" Paul Valéry's \"Pomegranates,\" Nâzim Hikmet's \"The Cucumber,\" Rita Dove's \"Parsley,\" Sylvia Plath's \"Mushrooms,\" and Michael Ondaatje's \"The Cinnamon Peeler.\" Peaches, figs, asparagus, olives, onions, peppers, nuts, coffee, chocolate, saffron, and nutmeg--the range of subjects is sure to whet the appetites of poetry lovers everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Everyman's Library's Pocket Poets are pocket-sized hardcovers that feature acid-free cream-colored paper bound in a full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, a European-style half-round spine, and a full-color illustrated jacket.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53612915720465,"sku":"NGR9798217007189","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53657707151633,"sku":"NIN9798217007189","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798217007189.jpg?v=1780315781"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/everyman-s-library-pocket-poets-ser-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}