{"product_id":"godlike-by-richard-hell","title":"Godlike by Richard Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York poet Paul Vaughn has a trick for enjoying poetry readings: He simply imagines the reader died a long time ago. Paul is twenty-seven, married, and an admired poet himself. R. T. Wode’s mission is to give offense. He’s also a poet, freshly landed in the city, and, at age sixteen, unknown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul worships T. They embark on a tempestuous affair, dropping acid and crashing parties and perambulating the grit and grime of New York City circa 1972. Paul is in love with T., but T. is in love with experience. Their relationship disintegrates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel of compelling originality and transcendent beauty by legendary musician and poet Richard Hell, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGodlike\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e transposes the notorious romance of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud to the East Village in its squalid, glorious ’70s heyday. The book comprises a version of Paul’s 1997 hospital notebooks: diaries amidst poems and essays, along with, most pertinently, the poet’s third-person memoir-novelette of his youthful time with the now-famous T. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGodlike\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is infused as well with evocations—and sometimes actual poems—of many New York poets of the era, from Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett to Edwin Denby and James Schuyler. It achieves a lyricism both profane and profound as it conjures the frenetic vitality as well as the existential malaise of an era. It’s a searching meditation on art, life, love, and the impossibility of everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52913851007285,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/godlike.jpg?v=1779478030","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/godlike-by-richard-hell","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}