{"product_id":"9780156032674","title":"Poet's Choice","description":"\u003cbr\u003eEdward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called \"Poet's Choice\" in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry; Poet's Choice includes the work of more than 130 poets-from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present-and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book reveals how poetry both puts us in touch with ourselves and connects us to each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don't want to go on being a root in the dark,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing on down, into the moist guts of the earth,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaking in and thinking, eating every day.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don't want so much misery. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don't want to go on as a root and a tomb, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlone under the ground, a warehouse with corpses, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalf frozen, dying of grief.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-from \"WALKING AROUND\" by PABLO NERUDA, \u003cbr\u003etranslated by ROBERT BLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008662126832,"sku":"9780156032674","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780156032674_p0.jpg?v=1763779526","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780156032674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}