{"product_id":"quote-poet-unquote-book-dennis-o-driscoll-9781556592706","title":"Quote Poet Unquote","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best-read men in the Western world\" is how \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e describes Irish poet-critic Dennis O'Driscoll. \u003ci\u003eQuote Poet Unquote\u003c\/i\u003e, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-related, proves that judgment spot on. The book grew out of O'Driscoll's column \"Pickings and Choosings\" for \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and contains nearly two thousand smart sayings obsessively gleaned from six hundred sources--including powerhouse critics, prize-winning poets, world leaders, and newspaper headlines. The voices in this volume are by turns provocative, deadpan, humorous, and inspirational:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you dribble past five defenders, it isn't called sheer prose.\"--Tom Leonard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.\"--Helen Vendler, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry--which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.\"--Michael Donaghy, \u003ci\u003eVerse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized by headings as forthright as \"What Is It Anyway?\" as playful as \"Prose and Cons\" and \"No, Thanks\" (on bad poetry), this collection is both a reference work and a supremely entertaining take on the poetry world. \u003ci\u003eQuote Poet Unquote\u003c\/i\u003e offers incontrovertible evidence--thousands of pieces of it--that poetry, and the passionate discourse it generates, is alive and kicking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e, former editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of essays. He lives in Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49536816447761,"sku":"GOR008655171","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595415593233,"sku":"GOR008106929","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50327577362705,"sku":"CIN1556592701G","price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037116727569,"sku":"NIN9781556592706","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332181623057,"sku":"CIN1556592701VG","price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556592701.jpg?v=1751244881","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/quote-poet-unquote-book-dennis-o-driscoll-9781556592706","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}