{"product_id":"another-way-to-play-book-michael-lally-9781609808303","title":"Another Way to Play","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From a '60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, \u003ci\u003eAnother Way to Play\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between. Lally is not a poet of any one school or style, but a poet of his own inner promptings; whether casual, impassioned, or ironic, his words are unmistakably his own. Here is a poet who can hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously, and fuse them, with pathos and humor, into his own idiosyncratic verbal art. As Lally himself writes: \"I suffered, I starved, and so did my kids, \/ I did what I did for poetry I thought \/and I never sold out, and even when I did \/ nobody bought.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540454318353,"sku":"GOR010987949","price":11.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50286129971473,"sku":"CIN1609808304G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1609808304.jpg?v=1750720067","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/another-way-to-play-book-michael-lally-9781609808303","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}