{"product_id":"transformations-1","title":"Transformations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Snow White\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Rumpelstiltskin\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Rapunzel\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"The Twelve Dancing Princesses\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"The Frog Prince\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Red Riding Hood\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter\" -C.K. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, 'They extend the language.' Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more.\" -- from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45787461582895,"sku":"9780618083435","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_d565b023-7a9c-42d2-b275-bba86c08d3e4.jpg?v=1786148470","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/transformations-1","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}