{"product_id":"that-swing-9781421422442","title":"That Swing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wise and clever book is rounded out with adept translations of work by Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Arthur Rimbaud, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, in Kennedy's signature combination of storytelling, formal nimbleness, and comic moments mixed with reverie and melancholy, we find the poet assessing the past and looking out on a future beyond his own lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTypical of Kennedy’s versatility and willingness to defy poetic expectations . . .\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow eighty-six, we should all hope Kennedy amends this closing prayer, and asks the Lord to let him produce quality work well into his nineties.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eClaremont Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  1. Recollections  Lonesome George 3 My Mother Consigns to the Flames My Trove of Comic Books 4 The Odors of New Jersey 5 Hopes 6 Insanity in the Basement 7 Literacy 9 Progress 10 Early Morning in Turks and Caicos Hospital 14  2. Saints and Others   Martha  Catherine Nicholas  Jane Austen Drives to Alton in Her Donkey Trap  Thomas Hardy's Obsequies  A Word from Hart Crane's Ghost  In Tiananmen Square   3. Versions  Sonnet for Helene (Pierre de Ronsard)  Abyss (Charles Baudelaire)  Sea Breeze (Stephane Mallarme)  Because the Dinner Meat Was Done to Death (Stephane Mallarme)  My Bohemia (Arthur Rimbaud)  Pierrot's Soliloquy (Jules Laforgue)  Last Poem (Robert Desnos) Mortal Landscape [Robert Sabatier]  4 Diversions  Riposte  Disabled Music  On a Young Man's Remaining an Undergraduate for Twelve Years  Cold Beer at the Paul Revere Capture Site  5. Easters  Invitation to the Dance  Jews Easter Parade in Sorrento  6. Last Acts  Departure  In the Motel Office  Pudge Wescott  Tourist Taking Pictures of Children in Mali  Rush Hour  Rummage Sale  How It Happens  At Eighty  Notes  Acknowledgments  About the Author","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408121930071,"sku":"9781421422442","price":17.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421422442.jpg?v=1730501664","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/that-swing-9781421422442","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}