{"product_id":"monster-verse-poems-human-and-inhuman-hardcover","title":"Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTony Barnstone\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Mitchell-Foust\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousness--murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empresses--to the creatures of myth and nightmare: dragons, sea serpents, mermaids, gorgons, sirens, witches, and all sorts of winged, fanged, and fire-breathing grotesques. The ghastly parade includes \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e's Grendel, Homer's Circe, William Morris's Fafnir, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock, Robert Lowell's man-eating mermaid, Oriana Ivy's Baba Yaga, Thom Gunn's take on Jeffrey Dahmer, and Shakespeare's hybrid creature Caliban, of whom Prospero famously concedes, \"This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonster Verse\u003c\/i\u003e is both a delightful carnival of literary horror and an entertainingly provocative investigation of what it means to be human.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTONY BARNSTONE \u003c\/b\u003eis the Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College, California. Author of numerous books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003eTongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry, he is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose, and editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthology \u003ci\u003eChinese Erotic Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHELLE MITCHELL-FOUST\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two poetry books and winner of numerous awards including a \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e \"Discovery\" Award, the Columbia University Poetry Prize, the Missouri Arts Council Biennial Award, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Colorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Gold Beach, Oregon.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 6.7 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755635015968,"sku":"9780375712401","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/06f644d050af42fe13911b544fde4e51.webp?v=1780064263","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/monster-verse-poems-human-and-inhuman-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}