{"product_id":"2026200014688-secondhand-almost-posthumous-late-picked-poems","title":"Almost Posthumous: Late Picked Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Almost Posthumous: Late Picked Poems, Douglas Muecke offers a quietly arresting collection of verse that arrives with the weight of a lifetime's accumulated wisdom, wit, and wondering. These late picked poems — gathered as if from the final, ripest fruit of a long literary season — carry the contemplative gravity of a scholar-poet who has spent decades attuned to the subtleties of language, irony, and human experience.\n\nMuecke, best known in academic circles for his authoritative scholarship on irony, brings that same razor-sharp sensibility to his poetry, crafting lines that balance intellectual precision with lyrical warmth. The collection meditates on mortality, memory, and the peculiar vantage point of old age — themes rendered with a deft lightness that transforms the elegiac into the quietly celebratory. For readers drawn to verse that rewards careful attention, Almost Posthumous poses a compelling question: what does a life devoted to language ultimately have to say?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210286407899,"sku":"2026200014688-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/56cb1134-5591-4fb0-8c57-fcdb1a01d3d3.png?v=1788268885","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014688-secondhand-almost-posthumous-late-picked-poems","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}