{"product_id":"if-you-love-that-lady-poems","title":"If You Love That Lady: Poems","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“One of my generation’s finest poets—a truly peerless voice. . . . An immense book and a searing achievement.” —Ocean Vuong, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of Gladness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stunning third collection from award-winning poet Maya C. Popa dramatizes the paradox of correspondence: the private worlds shaped by the act of writing, and the charged silences that follow. Drawing from nineteenth-century courtship letters, the collection lingers in the rush of love and its fallout: “Happiness was no small thing, \/ but neither was its cost.” Delivered with piercing elegance and signature wit—“What a formidable excuse he was. \/ What a pair of borrowed eyes \/ with a side of Keats”—these poems remind us that our appetites, like poetry, depend on revelation and restraint alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in America, England, and Romania, these poems are part elegy to the passing of impossible things, part ars poetica of remaking.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the inventive, relentless drive of longing, proving that what breaks us open at last reveals us to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52378084016408,"sku":"9781324124566","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781324124566_7c4f9.jpg?v=1783456344","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/if-you-love-that-lady-poems","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}