{"product_id":"thirty-poems","title":"Thirty Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Walser\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Christopher Middleton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The poems also give us Walser’s manner in concentrated miniature, and it could be that rhyme—joining the disparate, cultivating the arbitrary - is at the heart of what he is doing. They are odd, whimsical, insouciant things, exhilarating in their ability to be what they are.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser’s work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?\"—Rivka Galchen, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser’s work, \u003cem\u003eThirty Poems\u003c\/em\u003e collects famed translator Christopher Middleton’s favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range from an early poem in perfect copperplate handwriting, to one from a 1927 Czech-German newspaper, to a microscript.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e64 pages\u003cbr\u003eNew Directions, 2012\u003cbr\u003e5.3 x 0.4 x 7.3 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780811220019\u003cbr\u003ePoetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263524960,"sku":"9780811220019","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Thirty-Poems_Robert-Walser_Christopher-Middleton.jpg?v=1593201077","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/thirty-poems","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}