{"product_id":"transformations-paperback-1","title":"Transformations - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Sexton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKurt Jr. Vonnegut\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Snow White\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Rumpelstiltskin\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Rapunzel\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"The Twelve Dancing Princesses\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"The Frog Prince\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Red Riding Hood\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter\" -C.K. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, 'They extend the language.' Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more.\" -- from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8.19 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49301206827163,"sku":"9780618083435","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/4602\/1275\/files\/JeQUYqT2M39780618083435.webp?v=1786899016","url":"https:\/\/www.statesideqm.com\/products\/transformations-paperback-1","provider":"Stateside Quartermaster, Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}