{"product_id":"just-saying-selected-poems-from-my-sixties-and-seventies-paperback-1","title":"Just Saying: Selected Poems from My Sixties and Seventies - 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\u003eEugene Stelzig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Saying\u003c\/i\u003e is an older poet's reactions to being-in-the world. Reflecting, responding, maybe even half-philosophizing, half-admonishing. Poems about the natural world, about politics and the mess the world is in, about literature, especially Shakespeare, about the universe and our place in it, about time and temporality and getting old and facing mortality and the death of friends, about the recent pandemic. Thoughtful, playful, ironic, angry, tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic, wry. Sometimes provocative and maybe even proverbial. A poet with a lifetime's accumulating experiences observing from the margins of our strange world. A poet who wonders and whose mind wanders and who does not mince his words. A seasoned poet who speaks from both the head and the heart about everything and about nothing. \u003ci\u003eJust Saying\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugene Stelzig is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo. His poems have appeared in a variety of little and literary magazines, and he has published four collections during the past two decades. He has also authored five scholarly books and many articles in the areas of Romanticism and autobiography studies. His translation of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eFaust, Part I\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 2019, and \u003ci\u003eTrue Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2023. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48372776370397,"sku":"9798385272525","price":46.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ACGJzrLnlq9798385272525_7822225a-c66f-4823-8504-2ab1ff92334e.webp?v=1786701484","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/just-saying-selected-poems-from-my-sixties-and-seventies-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}