{"product_id":"the-city-keeps-selected-and-new-poems-1966-2014","title":"The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966-2014","description":"John Godfrey's masterful body of work has sustained its attentive, lovesick, unruly energy for over fifty years. The City Keeps brings together the best poems from his thirteen collections, plus some previously uncollected. \"Dedicated to those who people the City of New York,\" Godfrey's work is populated, elusive, and geometric, but also full of tenderness and light.\nWith an enemy\nlike daylight who needs\nthe psychology dime\nHips do the work\nand I cross the world\nJohn Godfrey was born in Massena, N.Y. in 1945. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1967, and took a B.S. in Nursing from Columbia University in 1994. He has received fellowships from the General Electric Foundation (1984), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Z Foundation (2013). He retired in 2011 after 17 years as a nurse clinician in HIV\/AIDS. He has lived in the East Village of Manhattan since the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1940696313\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1940696313.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Godfrey, John\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\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":42729258614845,"sku":"BVV.1940696313.A","price":15.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1940696313-0.jpg?v=1763413191","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-city-keeps-selected-and-new-poems-1966-2014","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}