{"product_id":"2940170027477","title":"Nocturne of Remembered Spring: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat Spoon River Anthology does for a Midwestern small town, Turns and Movies does for the world of vaudeville. Like Masters, like Aiken: passions, betrayals, secrets, sins, victories, defeats, and inevitable losing struggles against age and death are the stuff of this work. And that's only the first part of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the book consists of a set of four long poems: \u003ci\u003eDiscordants, Evensong, Disenchantment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Dance of Life\u003c\/i\u003e. In these poems Aiken takes on a subject that strikes home now just as much as it did then: what happens to love when the flame of romance flickers, or even goes out? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAiken's men - he always writes from a man's point of view - make a variety of decisions, but for Aiken, the underlying determinant of all of those choices, for good or ill, is the ongoing, quiet, patient force of life itself:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A light wind blew; the curtains stirred;\u003cbr\u003eThe east grew pale; a sleepy bird\u003cbr\u003eSang a few notes, then life was still:\u003cbr\u003eA calm, unhurrying, soulless will\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAiken's words may be a almost a century old, but they still speak powerfully today. Enjoy!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Freshwater Seas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117039993072,"sku":"2940170027477","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170027477_p0.jpg?v=1763699748","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170027477","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}