{"product_id":"the-intent-on","title":"The Intent On - Collected Poems, 1962-2006 (Io Poetry Series) (Book:3)","description":"***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for  decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black  Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of literary  experimenters, he was a close colleague of writers such as Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn,  and Robert Creeley. This comprehensive collection marks the first time the full range  of Irby’s artistry has been presented in one place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIrby’s early career, starting  in the 1960s, paralleled the late Beat era and the counterculture, and his blend  of innovative wordplay with personal and political themes made him an important voice  of that era. At the same time, he was able to forge his own path, conjuring a style  that was both universal and distinctly American. Critics and other poets especially  have noted his avant-garde use of sound, silence, and unusual sentence structure  to seduce readers. His surprising, incantatory style conjures the feel of jazz in  a striking blend of heart and mind. As poet Robert Kelly has observed, “No one .  . . has ever rooted down and plumbed the mystery of American places, land, name,  history of our taking space, as Irby does. No one . . . has so clearly articulated  the living fact, that America is an intelligent thing, and that . . . each human  being has a root awareness of the inadequacy of this place, and that is vision.”","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51305661956384,"sku":"9781556438332","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781556438332.jpg?v=1772762903","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-intent-on","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}