{"product_id":"the-golden-book-of-words","title":"The Golden Book of Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere at last is a new edition of a famous early work by Bernadette Mayer, one of the most beloved, radical, and witty American poets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again, both as a tribute and a joy to read. Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans most admire her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a certain deadpan wit, on full display here with classics such as “Lookin’ Like Areas of Kansas” or “What Babies Really Do,” or the marvelous “Essay”:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI guess it’s too late to live on the farm\u003cbr\u003eI guess it’s too late to move to a farm\u003cbr\u003eI guess it’s too late to start farming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI guess farming is not in the cards now…\u003cbr\u003eI guess farming is really out …\u003cbr\u003eI don’t want to be a farmer but my mother was right\u003cbr\u003eI should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat\u003cbr\u003eUnless I can convince myself as Satan argues with Eve\u003cbr\u003eThat we are among a proletariat of poets of all the classes\u003cbr\u003eEach ill-paid and surviving on nothing\u003cbr\u003eOr on as little as one needs to survive\u003cbr\u003eSteadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars\u003cbr\u003eTenants of a vision we rent out endlessly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021491224799,"sku":"9780811239684","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780811239684.jpg?v=1748492552","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/the-golden-book-of-words","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}