{"product_id":"pyrrhic-symphony","title":"Pyrrhic Symphony","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAdam O. Davis\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781496247919\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Nebraska Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e84\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e, the speaker asks, \"Should a poem be the pill or the pharmacy?\" And the book replies: Why not both? It ails and wails, blooms and wilts, but always breathes, just as anyone reading this does. Part siren songs, part torch songs, \u003ci\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e sings wry lullabies for apocalypses public, personal, and politic, moving from cruise ships to Krakatoa, from a dentist's office to a marriage as it explores how love, family, community, and art can function in the face of an increasingly hostile climate. And in lamenting how \"all I ever wanted from love \/ was that it never change,\" the feverish speaker goes toe-to-toe with the nurse who watches over him as they encounter and recount a world of late capitalist excess. By turns ecstatic and demonic, tender and terrifying, \u003ci\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e stands as an act of musical witness and cautious hope in this age of corrupted wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Pyrrhic Symphony | Adam O. Davis | Paperback | 9781496247919 | New | Poetry 1758783","offer_id":49782807068824,"sku":"1758783","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81bwv-HgMML.jpg?v=1788289359","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/pyrrhic-symphony","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}