{"product_id":"common-carnage-book-stephen-dobyns-9781852243906","title":"Common Carnage","description":"'The bird on the branch was singing of gladness,\/ disrupting my dreams with its dreadful screech.\/ Rushing outside I knocked it from its perch\/ with one blow of the garden rake...'    Taking a somewhat different tack from Keats in Ode to a Nightingale, Stephen Dobyns addresses the conundrum 'How hard to love the world; we must love the world '. The spiritual intermixed with the bawdy, the courageous with the cowardly, the kindly with the cruel - Common Carnage rejects the decorous and decorative to map the complexity, the common carnage of our lives, as it seeks to understand our nature.    Stephen Dobyns is a spinner of dark, extravagant fables of a world we live or may live in. They present a view of what it means to be human which is at once both funny and bleak, compassionate and remorseless. His is a world haunted by regret, driven by desire and need, illuminated by daring make-believe. In his often frightening and sometimes strangely funny poems, Dobyns creates a remarkable bridge between pure entertainment and deep psychological insight.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575351124241,"sku":"GOR003636156","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852243902.jpg?v=1751457459","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/common-carnage-book-stephen-dobyns-9781852243906","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}