{"title":"Louis Simpson","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Simpson (1923 - 2012) was the author of seventeen books of poetry, including four from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eArmidale\u003c\/em\u003e (1979); \u003cem\u003ePeople Live Here, Selected Poems 1949 - 1983\u003c\/em\u003e (1983); \u003cem\u003eThe Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940 - 2001\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize; and \u003cem\u003eStruggling Times\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). Simpson was the recipient of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection \u003cem\u003eAt the End of the Open Road\u003c\/em\u003e (Wesleyan University Press, 1964). Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for \u003cem\u003eModern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e (Story Line Press). \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-owner-of-the-house","title":"The Owner of the House","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual’s maladjustments to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover’s quarrel with the world. “Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry.” —Seamus Heaney “These poems—wry, cantankerous and skillfully made—are a testament to Simpson’s considerable talent.” —David Orr, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Sept. 21, 2003 “For more than forty years he has been among our best poets—one of the sharpest describers of daily, unpoetic life. His language and form have grown steadily plainer, drier, more direct, like an old champagne-tres sec.” —Bill Holm, \u003cem\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOn a Disappearance of the Moon\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eAnd I, who used to lie with the moon,\u003cbr\u003e am here in a peat-bog. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With a criminal, an adulterous girl, \u003cbr\u003e and a witch tied down with branches... \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e the glaucous eyeballs gleaming under the lids,\u003cbr\u003e some hairs still on the chin.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 2003 BOA Editions \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: \u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-929918-38-0 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $30.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: October 2003 \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-39-9 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $19.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: October 2003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802450117,"sku":"1929918399","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":40608607633579,"sku":"","price":775.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_OWNER.jpg?v=1527683601"},{"product_id":"armidale","title":"Armidale","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSigned and unsigned copies available in limited quantities\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis limited edition chapbook was printed in 1979 and has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since its publication. Books and dust jackets are in fine condition with minimal shelf wearing. Unread. Ideal collector's copy. Actual cover design may vary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 1979.\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Pamphlet","offer_id":8419702917,"sku":"Armidale","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pamphlet (Signed)","offer_id":9644714821,"sku":"Armidale-Signed","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Armidale.jpeg?v=1527683174"},{"product_id":"people-live-here-selected-poems-1949-1984","title":"People Live Here: Selected Poems","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHardcover and paperback copies available in limited quantities\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a first edition, first printing. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd., since its publication. Unread. Ideal collector's copy. Actual cover design may vary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for the collection\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry . . . \u003cem\u003ePeople Live Here\u003c\/em\u003e is full of poems that are already secure in the canon of American poetry.\"  \u003cstrong\u003e—Seamus Heaney  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Simpson is that rare thing, a poet who is as good as they say.\"                   \u003cstrong\u003e—Christopher Ricks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poetry of Louis Simpson seems to me extraordinarily beautiful and complex . . . it demonstrates an engagement with the vicissitudes and antinomies of American life in the sixties and seventies that is equal to the best we have, and . . . may even possess a greater, quieter power of staying because it is extremely accessible.\"  \u003cstrong\u003e—Dave Smith, \u003cem\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 1983. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8419957957,"sku":"9780918526434","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":38292644425,"sku":"9780918526427","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/PEOPLE_LIVE_HERE.jpg?v=1527683312"},{"product_id":"struggling-times","title":"Struggling Times","description":"\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half-a-century. Born in the West Indies, Simpson emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. He studied at Columbia University, then served the U.S. Army in active duty in Europe during World War II. After the war he continued his studies at Columbia and at the University of Paris. While living in France he published his first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Arrivistes\u003c\/em\u003e (1949). The poems in\u003cem\u003e Struggling Times\u003c\/em\u003e find Simpson's distinct imaginative voice working at its full poetic power. Both timely and personal, the poems reveal Simpson's on-going quarrel with suburban America, as well as his concerns about the direction of an American society struggling to retain its integrity in the midst of widespread challenges and worldwide strife. \"This is the Jamaican-born Simpson's 18th collection; its dry trimeters and tragic resignations should certainly please the faithful fans... Yet the new poems, as much as any in his oeuvre, leave room for unexpected happiness...Simpson believes in endurance and the rewards of the ordinary. He can, at his best, make his readers believe in those things too.\"--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \"It is narrative and voice --the honesty and inflection, wit and irony...that draw readers into his world.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSuddenly\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The truck came at me, \u003cbr\u003e I swerved\u003cbr\u003e but I got a dent.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The car insurance woman \u003cbr\u003e informs me that my policy\u003cbr\u003e has been cancelled.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I say, “You can’t do that.” \u003cbr\u003e She gives me a little smile \u003cbr\u003e and goes back to her nails.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lately have you noticed \u003cbr\u003e how aggressively people drive?\u003cbr\u003e A \u003cem\u003ewhoosh!\u003c\/em\u003e and whatever.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Some people are suddenly \u003cbr\u003e very rich, and as many \u003cbr\u003e suddenly very poor.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As for the war, don’t get me started. \u003cbr\u003e We were too busy watching\u003cbr\u003e the ball game to see   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e that the things we care about \u003cbr\u003e are suddenly disappearing, \u003cbr\u003e and that they always were.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 2009\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available Editions:\u003cbr\u003e -----------------------------------------------------------------------   \u003cbr\u003e ISBN: 978-1-934414-19-4\u003cbr\u003e Paperback $16.00\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: April 2009        \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420003973,"sku":"9781934414194","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/StrugglingTimes_LSimpson.jpg?v=1527683356"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/SIMPSON-obit-superJumbo.jpg?v=1453991871","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/louis-simpson.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}