{"product_id":"9781554902408","title":"Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems","description":"From his first book, \u003ccite\u003eThe Visible Man\u003c\/cite\u003e (“as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read” — the \u003ccite\u003eDalhousie Review\u003c\/cite\u003e), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon (“passionate, humourous, worldly-wise, kick-ass poetry” — The \u003ccite\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/cite\u003e), Robert Priest’s poetry has been the delight of critics and readers alike. \u003ccite\u003eBlue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/cite\u003e brings together the best of Robert Priest’s six books of lyric poems, spells, psalms, aphorisms, koans, diatribes, and prose poems along with an exciting new group of poems and aphorisms. Also included is a selection of never-before-published song lyrics. Relentless in their assessment of contemporary culture, the mordant irony, brutal honesty, and remarkable sensitivity of Priest’s works create a poetic crucible in which the Canadian “melting-pot” is purified of its hypocrisies and reclaimed, ultimately, in the joy of language. Poetry full of flashes of insight. Imaginative in a strange way, he takes inordinate chances with logic, countering absurdity with absurdity, and expanding our sense of human emotional possibilities.  — \u003ccite\u003eThe Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature\u003c\/cite\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132813983984,"sku":"9781554902408","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554902408_p0.jpg?v=1763755150","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554902408","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}