{"product_id":"9780615190389","title":"Beating the Lilies","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatthew Young is a new beat poet, and also a Doors fan, the second name Young --- in this case is correct --- because both the poetry and the poet are! I especially dug: 'Brendan Behans' Glass', 'Diet Christ', 'Dreaming Like A Symphony' and 'Dublin Ramblings'; amongst the 247 pages of Matthew's first poetry works in his new book: BEATING THE LILIES. Meeting Matt a couple of years ago on a poetry reading trip with other Doors fans in that low-lit Rue de la Roquette passage, near my fave Parisian hotel the Royal Bastille --- we hung like Beats and talked poetry and Doors stuff; and hung with a chick called Kat who was into Hemingway: all outside in the cool breeze of a July night. This cat is a traveller and a seeker, and what comes through on these works of his, is a man in touch with the true spirit of Beat! ...like all good poetry you'll have to read some of these a few times over --- to lean on all the angles...Darryl Read Berlin February 2008 www.darrylread.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48682178609387,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":35.15,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780615190389-1.jpg?v=1781631145","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780615190389","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}