{"product_id":"poems-of-new-york","title":"Poems of New York","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"contributors isbn-related 9780375415043 dsktop-links show\"\u003eEdited by \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"ws-nw role-E\"\u003eElizabeth Schmidt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780375415043 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"slot-header\"\u003eABOUT POEMS OF NEW YORK\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry–ranging from Walt Whitman’s exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets’ moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughes’s Harlem to James Merrill’s Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEncompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, \u003cem\u003ePoems of New York\u003c\/em\u003e will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-in-series\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Llc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493005299821,"sku":"zlw1790047677351","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/9532\/8621\/files\/poems-of-new-york_1.jpg?v=1790047685","url":"https:\/\/coffeescale.shop\/products\/poems-of-new-york","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}