{"product_id":"9781609808303","title":"Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a '60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, \u003ci\u003eAnother Way to Play\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between. Lally is not a poet of any one school or style, but a poet of his own inner promptings; whether casual, impassioned, or ironic, his words are unmistakably his own. Here is a poet who can hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously, and fuse them, with pathos and humor, into his own idiosyncratic verbal art. As Lally himself writes: \"I suffered, I starved, and so did my kids, \/ I did what I did for poetry I thought \/and I never sold out, and even when I did \/ nobody bought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036529737968,"sku":"9781609808303","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609808303_p0.jpg?v=1763836222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609808303","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}