{"product_id":"monster-verse-poems-human-and-inhuman","title":"Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman","description":"\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMonster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebrings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHumans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousness--murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empresses--to the creatures of myth and nightmare: dragons, sea serpents, mermaids, gorgons, sirens, witches, and all sorts of winged, fanged, and fire-breathing grotesques. The ghastly parade includes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's Grendel, Homer's Circe, William Morris's Fafnir, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock, Robert Lowell's man-eating mermaid, Oriana Ivy's Baba Yaga, Thom Gunn's take on Jeffrey Dahmer, and Shakespeare's hybrid creature Caliban, of whom Prospero famously concedes, \"This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMonster Verse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is both a delightful carnival of literary horror and an entertainingly provocative investigation of what it means to be human.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Barnstone, Tony (Editor), Mitchell-Foust, Michelle (Editor)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67782164709692,"sku":"gmq1792565699913","price":15.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0935\/5073\/9772\/files\/monster-verse-poems-human-and-inhuman_1.png?v=1792565706","url":"https:\/\/willoway.shop\/products\/monster-verse-poems-human-and-inhuman","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}