{"product_id":"transformations-book-anne-sexton-9780618083435","title":"Transformations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeaturing:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"Snow White\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"Rumpelstiltskin\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"Rapunzel\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"The Twelve Dancing Princesses\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"The Frog Prince\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"Red Riding Hood\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter\" -C.K. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, 'They extend the language.' Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more.\" -- from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577928884497,"sku":"GOR005116503","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49932330893585,"sku":"CIN061808343XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50139349156113,"sku":"CIN061808343XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50209994047761,"sku":"CIN061808343XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983987839249,"sku":"NIN9780618083435","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52412178530577,"sku":"GOR009126329","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/061808343X.jpg?v=1750742968","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/transformations-book-anne-sexton-9780618083435","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}