{"product_id":"brodey-jim-freak-wondpb","title":"[03\/23\/27] Brodey, Jim: Freak Wonder","description":"\u003cp\u003eNightboat Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 23, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim was like this messenger of chaos. He had this notion of poetry as performance way ahead of his time. He was fabulous. --Eileen Myles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet, rock critic, \"voracious post-lysergic romantic,\" and fixture of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, Jim Brodey was a friend to Frank O'Hara, Duane Allman, and Eve Babitz. He was known as an otherworldly messenger, who, Eileen Myles notes, \"writes with a rich, disturbing kind of balance.\" Bringing together poems from the 1950s to his death from AIDS in 1993, \u003ci\u003eFreak Wonder: The Collected Poems of Jim Brodey\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive volume of Brodey's work, a collection cut through with the surreal rock-and-roll resonances of sex, drugs, and poetics at the margins of American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118181474327,"sku":"9781643623320","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781643623320_FC-400x600.jpg?v=1778452689","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/brodey-jim-freak-wondpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}