{"product_id":"simplify-me-when-im-dead-poems-selected-by-ted-hughes-poet-to-poet","title":"Simplify Me When I'm Dead: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes (Poet to Poet)","description":"Remember me when I am dead\nand simplify me when I'm dead.\nAs the processes of earth\nstrip off the colour and the skin\ntake the brown hair and blue eye\nand leave me simpler than at birth\nwhen hairless I came howling in\nas the moon came in the cold sky.\n―from \"Simplify me when I'm dead\"\n\nBy the time he was killed in Normandy in June 1944, at the age of only twenty-four, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that singled him out as the most brilliant and promising English poet of World War II. While his early poems deal with the wonder and pain of love, his later poems are focused on the misery and brutality of war and death. His body of work still conveys a rare immediacy and youthful power, marked―as Ted Hughes wrote in his introduction―by a \"burning exploratory freshness of mind.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0571230385\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0571230385.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Douglas, Keith\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729262383165,"sku":"BVV.0571230385.A","price":12.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0571230385-0.jpg?v=1763413402","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/simplify-me-when-im-dead-poems-selected-by-ted-hughes-poet-to-poet","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}