{"title":"David Ignatow","description":"David Ignatow (1914-1997) was the author of more than 25 books including \u003ci\u003eLiving Is What I Wanted: Last Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (BOA 1999) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (BOA 1998). \u003c\/span\u003eI\u003cspan\u003egnatow’s many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award “for a lifetime of creative effort.” He also received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Frost Medal, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. During his literary career, Ignatow worked as an editor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnalytic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChelsea Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and as poetry editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"at-my-ease-uncollected-poems-of-the-fifties-and-sixties","title":"At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing from his literary fathers Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Bollingen Prize-winning poet David Ignatow eschews ornamentation in favor of embracing the fierce, uncompromising truths of the human spirit in his eighteenth collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Mexico\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sun blazes in silence\u003cbr\u003efor there is no one to speak to\u003cbr\u003elike the sun. The men sit \u003cbr\u003eunder it, bored, filled\u003cbr\u003ewith inferiorities and resentments\u003cbr\u003ewhich they turn toward the blue onyx\u003cbr\u003eof the sky, sending up planes\u003cbr\u003ein defiance, whipping the air,\u003cbr\u003ebut nothing is said, for the sun\u003cbr\u003eleaves behind its own contempt:\u003cbr\u003edarkness and cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for the collection\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Complex, beautiful, lacerated with living and with toil, uncompromising. Yet, for all that, there is an easy grace and Athenian simplicity.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—William Billiter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418162821,"sku":"9781880238554","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/AT_MY_EASE.jpg?v=1527683174"},{"product_id":"living-is-what-i-wanted-last-poems","title":"Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Ignatow was, in Gerald Stern's words, the \"gatekeeper between life and death.\" Nowhere is that more apparent than in \u003cem\u003eLiving Is What I Wanted: Last Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, the twentieth and final collection by one of the most prolific and compassionate writers of this century. Vibrant with what Harvey Shapiro called \"the life of struggle,\" the poems address the imminence of death honestly and boldly, acknowledging its necessity and its mystery. Ignatow, as gatekeeper, examines the divided between life and death in some of the most moving and compromising poems he ever wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Someone of the past \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Someone of the past is dying in front of me,\u003cbr\u003e her face immobile. \u003cbr\u003e She sees herself in me, dying too.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What we know of each other is dying with us,\u003cbr\u003e no one else will ever know\u003cbr\u003e and still we can't convey\u003cbr\u003e to one another the past events\u003cbr\u003e to live them over with a change\u003cbr\u003e in sight of our eternity. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Did I mean you harm\u003cbr\u003e when we lived together?\u003cbr\u003e Did you mean me to be a nightmare\u003cbr\u003e in your life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 1999 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions:\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-880238-77-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $21.95\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: September 1999\u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-78-0\u003cbr\u003e Price: $12.50\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: September 1999\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802208325,"sku":"1880238780","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418632133,"sku":"1-880238-77-2","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/LIVING_IS_WHAT_I.jpg?v=1527683291"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Ignatow_David_02_17_1971.jpg?v=1784820540","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/david-ignatow.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}