{"product_id":"wagner-jan-the-art-of-topiary-copy","title":"Wagner, Jan: The Art of Topiary","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated by David Keplinger. Milkweed Editions (paperback, 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A collection of vivid, tightly knit poems from one of the most important contemporary poets writing in German.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Topiary\u003c\/i\u003e is the gorgeous product of a long and careful collaboration between Jan Wagner and American poet David Keplinger. With the care of master gardeners tending their plants, Wagner and Keplinger have shaped Wagner's originals--acclaimed internationally, now in English for the first time--into precise, delightful, and highly modern translations. Along the way, the collection unfolds dialogues between discipline and freedom, sound and sense, faithfulness and improvisation. In these poems, formal structures are a corset loosened by each line of verse, a garden always pleasurably at risk of being overrun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompact, light-footed, and curious, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Topiary\u003c\/i\u003e is the exciting American debut of a stunning and joyful voice in global literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44222295670807,"sku":"9781571314963","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_5134a864-1cf4-40b0-ba48-523788556788.jpg?v=1599952623","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wagner-jan-the-art-of-topiary-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}