{"product_id":"9781324124566","title":"If You Love That Lady: Poems","description":"\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of Gladness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in America, England, and Romania, these poems are part elegy to the passing of impossible things, part ars poetica of remaking. \u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e explores the inventive, relentless drive of longing, proving that what breaks us open at last reveals us to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom “Dark Matter”:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesire’s what’s the matter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewith our lives, a sea parting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eto reveal another sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIts command renews,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eswells and beckons:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eyou’d be a fool not to love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003euntil the last second.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43330700214333,"sku":"9781324124566","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781324124566_p0.jpg?v=1783515682","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781324124566","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}