{"product_id":"if-you-love-that-lady","title":"If You Love That Lady","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIf You Love That Lady\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMaya C. Popa\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781324124566\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e80\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Dark Matter\" \u003cbr\u003e Desire's what's the matter\u003cbr\u003e with our lives, a sea parting\u003cbr\u003e to reveal another sea.\u003cbr\u003e Its command renews, \u003cbr\u003e swells and beckons: \u003cbr\u003e you'd be a fool not to love\u003cbr\u003e until the last second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"If You Love That Lady | Maya C. Popa | Hardcover | 9781324124566 | New | Poetry 1777918","offer_id":49852442312856,"sku":"1777918","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91ifJNV7ALL.jpg?v=1788886912","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/if-you-love-that-lady","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}