{"product_id":"tantalus-in-love","title":"Tantalus in Love","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTantalus in Love\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlan Shapiro\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780618452422\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin Harcourt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e87\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eKingsley Tufts Award winner Alan Shapiro is at his most passionate in this new collection full of life, jealousy, lust, and romantic abandon. \u003cbr\u003eTantalus in Love begins with the disintegration of a marriage, with anger and suspicion. But from sorrow Shapiro moves to celebrate the resilience of love after loss, and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. In \"Invocation\" he writes, \"Love . . . let there be never again \/ a moment in which \/ your sudden shining isn't \/ sudden.\" These poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of love's evanescence and uncertainty. \"Iris \/ love flower of the middle-aged . . . the stalk \/ bends under the unexpected weight . . . how did I ever live without you?\" Tantalus in Love reinvents myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, illuminating this defining vulnerability of humanity.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Tantalus in Love | Alan Shapiro | Hardcover | 9780618452422 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756526","offer_id":49149134307480,"sku":"1756526","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41rLQPGZtpL.jpg?v=1779523620","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/tantalus-in-love","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}