{"product_id":"jubilant-thicket-new-and-selected-poems-9781556592027","title":"Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan Williams founded The Jargon Society—a publisher dedicated to poetry, experimental fiction, photography and visionary folk art—and has championed the underdog, maverick and outsider in the arts for 50 years. He has also published over 100 of his own books, pamphlets and broadsides of poetry, essays and photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJubilant Thicket\u003c\/i\u003e collects the best of his poetry and teems with the eccentric, strange and boundlessly authentic—neoclassical poems, social satire, musical suites and lyrics. There is spleen, salt and a delicious -sarcasm, as Williams finds inspiration in Mahler and Mojo Nixon, Blake and whimmydiddles. There is nobody quite like Jonathan Williams:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“He is one of the few poets about whom it could be said, he has never bored a reader.”—\u003ci\u003eContemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of all the Black Mountain poets (teachers and disciples alike), Jonathan Williams is the wittiest, the least constrained, the most joyous.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jonathan Williams is himself a kind of polytechnic -institute, trained to write poems as spare, functional and alive as a blade of grass.”—Guy Davenport, from \u003ci\u003eThe Geography of the Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Indispensable! . . . We need him more than we know.”—R. Buckminster Fuller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf the thousands of essays and reviews published about his work, Williams writes, “The best thing yet said about me came from an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. His letter ended: ‘Thanks for writing all those kick-ass books.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Williams\u003c\/b\u003e’s most recent book is \u003ci\u003eA Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e (Godine). He founded The Jargon Society in 1951, a publisher that, according to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, “has come to occupy a special place in the cultural life as patron of the American imagination.” He lives on Skywinding Farm in rural North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359609749847,"sku":"9781556592027","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556592027.jpg?v=1754125170","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jubilant-thicket-new-and-selected-poems-9781556592027","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}