{"product_id":"9780888645371","title":"Too Bad","description":"A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and exemplify the rehearsed dictum of an old teacher: \"Every enduring poem was written today.\" Simply put, \"This book is not an autobiography. It is a gesture toward a self-portrait, which I take to be quite a different kettle of fish.\" -- Robert Kroetsch, from the Introduction","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65418177872221,"sku":null,"price":16.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9780888645371.jpg?v=1789423791","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9780888645371","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}