{"product_id":"johanna-poems-by-ben-mazer","title":"Johanna Poems by Ben Mazer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn early, scarce chapbook by American poet Ben Mazer, one of the so-called Harvard Wits who was associated with particularly bohemian Boston-area literary culture especially during the first decade of the 2000s. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003ePublisher: Cy Gist Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eYear: 2007, first edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003ePress designation: CGP7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eContains fourteen titled poems on fourteen leaves (28 pages) on cream-colored stock and sewn through the fold with thread. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe book is bound in heavy bean-green paper wrappers, with a contrasting lime-green inner wrapper serving as endpapers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eColophon: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohanna Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was printed in an edition of 200, including a special Editor's Run, numbered 1-50. Text set in Hoefler Text, titles set in Harrington. Cy Gist Press is edited by Mark Lamoureux. Cover illustration by the author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThe collection occupies an important early position in Mazer’s bibliography. Following his first collection, White Cities (1995), \u003cem\u003eJohanna Poems\u003c\/em\u003e appeared before \u003cem\u003eThe Foundations of Poetry Mathematics\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), Poems (2010, Pen \u0026amp; Anvil), and the succession of collections that established Mazer as a noteworthy voice in contemporary American poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThe book was launched in Harvard Square on March 14, 2007, when Mazer and poet Stephen Sturgeon gave a joint reading at the Democracy Center. The event was sponsored by the famous Grolier Poetry Bookshop. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThe rear cover bears an extraordinary endorsement by Sturgeon:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eWhose poems are these? It looks like the heads of a hundred people made them, yet there is no disjunction, no coil of expression, no tragic dissolution here that fails our understanding. Don Juan, at the end of his life entrapped in a mineshaft, might have called these poems up to us. We need more of these poems, quickly, and we are in a state of perpetual penury now, for only one person, Ben Mazer, can supply them, and however much he provides there will always be gasping for more.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget c-f\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"CardInstancey5pITgmat45vGeke1g98kw\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: A fine copy. No chipping, no markings, no missing elements. Penciled bookseller's information appears faintly on the back cover, top left corner. Minor half-inch crease on the front cover below the thread insertion, as shown in the photo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bonfire Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885485961390,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/0679\/0574\/files\/IMG_4812.jpg?v=1785965474","url":"https:\/\/bonfirebookshop.com\/products\/johanna-poems-by-ben-mazer","provider":"Bonfire Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}