{"product_id":"9781556592706","title":"Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry","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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055969190128,"sku":"9781556592706","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556592706_p0.jpg?v=1763755007","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556592706","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}