{"product_id":"emerald-ice-selected-poems-19621987-9780876857458","title":"Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1988  at the age of fifty  Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here  returned to print at last  are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics  series  and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self  a fierce free-verse imagist  and one of the most important and controversial poets to come out of California in the 1960s.  About these poems  Wakoski writes: \"My themes are loss  justice  truth  transformation  the duality of the world  the possibilities of magic  and the creation of beauty out of ugliness. My language is dramatic  oral  and as American as I can make it. I am impatient with stupidity  bureaucracy  and organizations. Poetry  for me  is the supreme art of the individual using language to show how special  different  and wonderful his perceptions are. With verve and finesse. With discursive precision. And with utter contempt for pettiness of imagination or spirit.\"  Emerald Ice is a contemporary classic  the essential poems of a uniquely American female sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923825557557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0876857454","price":247.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780876857458.jpg?v=1794116365","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/emerald-ice-selected-poems-19621987-9780876857458","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}