{"product_id":"9780805242294","title":"Collected Poems, 1954-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eIrving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman’s rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational, his Yiddish flair for the comic, his profound social insight and lucidity. He writes about everything from the Coney Island days of his childhood and his bohemian years in postwar New York to the art of Picasso and George Segal, from the Holocaust to its aftermath—in narrative and dramatic poems and personal lyrics that are by turns ardent, witty, biting, ecstatic, and heartbreaking. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong a favorite among his fellow poets (John Hollander has called his work “amazing in its moral intensity”), Feldman has remained true to the soul’s deepest callings: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have questioned myself aloud at night in a voice I did not recognize, hurried and disobedient, hardly brighter. \u003cbr\u003eWhat have I kept? Nothing. \u003cbr\u003eNot bread or the bread-word. \u003cbr\u003eWhat have I offered? Rebel in the kingdom, my gift has wanted a grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis glorious gathering of poems displays Feldman’s entire career in all its variety and passion, and confirms his place among the great poets of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030878273776,"sku":"9780805242294","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780805242294_p0.jpg?v=1763739134","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780805242294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}