{"product_id":"9780856463914","title":"About the Size of It","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTom Disch’s first collection of poems for ten years presents a dazzling variety show of inventive wit. His serious gift for humour permeates poems by turn lyric and narrative, satirical, rebellious, ribald, uncompromising and honest. Too idiosyncratic and various a poet to belong to any poetic grouping, he is simply, in the late Donald Davie’s phrase, consistently entertaining and intelligent’.\u003cp\u003eTom Disch was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1940. He moved to New York, where he still lives, in 1957. A critically acclaimed and award-winning science fiction author (writing as Thomas M. Disch), he has published many novels, collections of short stories and of poetry, as well as children’s fiction and two works of poetry criticism. He has contributed poems regularly to \u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Poetry (Chicago)\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e; he writes reviews for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027260424432,"sku":"9780856463914","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856463914_p0.jpg?v=1763830855","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856463914","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}