{"product_id":"monster-verse-9780375712401","title":"Monster Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 da","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525059125591,"sku":"9780375712401","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780375712401.jpg?v=1731859075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/monster-verse-9780375712401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}