{ "item_title" : "Transformations", "item_author" : [" Anne Sexton", "Jr. Kurt Vonnegut "], "item_description" : "The 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.Featuring: Snow WhiteRumpelstiltskinRapunzelThe Twelve Dancing PrincessesThe Frog PrinceRed Riding HoodAstonishingly, 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. WilliamsI 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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/61/808/343/061808343X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "18.99", "online_price" : "18.99", "our_price" : "18.99", "club_price" : "18.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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