{"product_id":"9780856359934","title":"Hotel Lautreamont","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Count of Lautreamont - a nineteenth-century poet about whom little is known, except that he spent his brief adult life in various hotels in Paris, checking out of his transient existence at the age of 24 - is one of the forgotten presences alive in John Ashberys collection. \u003cem\u003eHotel Lautreamont\u003c\/em\u003e includes the poems and sequences he wrote during composition of his enormous poem \u003cem\u003eFlow Chart, \u003c\/em\u003epublished in 1991 to great critical puzzlement and acclaim. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe title poem experiments in pantoum form; and there are other demanding formal challenges. The poet proves as supple as Houdini in bringing them off. His obliquities are entertaining and eloquent. It is no longer necessary to describe him as obscureor difficult: his poetic strategies are now part of the mainstream of American and British writing. He is \"quite simply the finest poet in English of his generation\" (The Times)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CARCANET PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185246306578,"sku":"9780856359934","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9780856359934.jpg?v=1774734626","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9780856359934","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}