{"product_id":"mark-ford-selected-poems-9781566893497","title":"Mark Ford: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e charts Mark Ford's growing complexity as a writer and his mastery and use of form. John Ashbery calls Ford's work \"refreshing\" and it's that exuberance and goodwill that animates the poems, giving them their spontaneity and leavening the grim with comic élan and joy. Myth, history, and the everyday are all at play in this wonderfully diverse collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvisible Assets: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter he threw he through a\u003cbr\u003eplate glass window, nature seemed that much closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven the dastardly division in society\u003cbr\u003emight be healed by a first-rate glazier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course, on Sundays families still picnicked\u003cbr\u003eboldly on the village green, and afterwards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emarveled at the blacksmith's glowing forge--\u003cbr\u003ehow strong they all were in those days!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet how small! Even a man only six foot tall\u003cbr\u003ewas then esteemed a veritable giant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurely the current furor over architecture\u003cbr\u003ewould have evoked from them only pitying smiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile the market for landscapes has never\u003cbr\u003ebeen firmer. This view, for instance, includes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseven counties, and a bull charging around in its paddock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Ford\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962. He has published three collections of poetry and a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel and is the editor of Frank O'Hara's \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also translated Roussel's \u003ci\u003eNew Impressions of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eLondon: A History in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Ford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566893497","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45133442089097,"sku":"9781566893497","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8c40f7b0-c89a-4034-a428-34a1b64d5ce0.jpg?v=1767678847","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/mark-ford-selected-poems-9781566893497","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}