{"product_id":"sarments-new-and-selected-poems-book-john-james-9781848615786","title":"Sarments: New and Selected Poems","description":"\"This collection is an essential delight; a `book resonant of a life \/ neither following nor in pursuit', gathering old and new work all equally fresh. As the epigraph to the first poem attests, `one does not work out of a reaction against but rather out of affection for something.' Like Mayakovsky, John James has produced a body of work perfectly able to marry lyricism and coarseness, rage and tenderness - and, like the Futurist, to weld the aesthetic to the social. Here is that rarest poet: able to adequately respond to pleasure, and equally able to create it. The selection spans 50 years of work in all its subtlety of tone and address - a hybrid of a Welsh `praise' tradition, playfully mannered English reserve, and New York School exuberance. This is a poetry deftly attuned to various musics, overtly engaged with the visual arts, yet just as happy out in the streets at home and abroad - and more than partial to a walk in the countryside. The poems of the last decade are singular in their `reach toward the poetry of kindred \/ where we speak in our work as we seldom do otherwise.' Embrace this New and Selected James: here is an effervescent poetry that can leave nobody indifferent.\" -Simon Perril\n\n\"James is decidedly un-English in his love of French and German poetry, in his unembarrassed (and unembarrassing) celebration of the pleasures of the flesh, and in his Marxist and republican politics - which seem to legitimate a taste for the finer things on the grounds of international solidarity against a British suppression of the capacity for joy ... John James is one of the great sensualists of twentieth-century lyric poetry.\" \t-John Wilkinson","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50889924673809,"sku":"GOR014106536","price":10.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50891435933969,"sku":"GOR013108897","price":14.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056643899665,"sku":"NIN9781848615786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52131069067537,"sku":"NLS9781848615786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848615787.jpg?v=1750768621","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/sarments-new-and-selected-poems-book-john-james-9781848615786","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}