{"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 This copy has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd., since its publication.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","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/people-live-here-selected-poems-1949-1984","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}