{"product_id":"pattern-more-complicated","title":"Pattern More Complicated","description":"Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in \u003ci\u003eThe Pattern More Complicated\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful section of new poems draws the whole work together in a kind of autobiographical novel, as—in Eliot's phrase, from which the title is taken—\"the pattern of dead and living\" grows \"more complicated\" with the years.  Williamson's verse is a refreshing examples of how delicately the personal can intersect with the public in a love for the considered life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pattern More Complicated\u003c\/i\u003e assembles Williamson's most important, representative poems, marking the trajectory of poetic development and the recurrence of themes across the span of four previous collections to present a survey of a major American poet in a single volume.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251076288856,"sku":"9780226899497","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226899497_70d3d4d8-4d9d-460b-9371-240a7c2536eb.jpg?v=1769762718","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pattern-more-complicated","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}