{"product_id":"9780226514505","title":"Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems","description":"from \u003ci\u003eEnormously Sad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e . . . Sad, so sad-compared to what?\u003cbr\u003e To your earlier more oblivious state?\u003cbr\u003e It never was oblivious enough-\u003cbr\u003e always those presentiments of sadness\u003cbr\u003e prickling the limbic. Now a voice says, \u003ci\u003eGet outside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eyourself, go walk on the flats. The tide's gone out—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e but your little metal detector will detect little metallic coins\u003cbr\u003e of enormous sadness in the teeming wet sand,\u003cbr\u003e and then, the tide will come back, erasing, cleansing!\u003cbr\u003e And you, standing there in the salty scouring air-\u003cbr\u003e will you still be \u003ci\u003eenormously sad\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e While the other world, outside your tiny purview, struck\u003cbr\u003e by iron, reels? World of intentional iron, pure savage\u003cbr\u003e organized iron of the world, it hasn't the time\u003cbr\u003e that you have for your puny enormous sadness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Widely acclaimed for expanding the stylistic boundaries of both the narrative and meditative lyric, Gail Mazur’s poetry crackles with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived life. \u003ci\u003eZeppo’s First Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes excerpts from Mazur’s four previous books, as well as twenty-two new poems, is epitomized by the worldly longing of the title poem, with its searching poignancy and comic bravura. Mazur’s explorations of “this fallen world, this loony world” are deeply moving acts of empathy by a singular moral sensibility—evident from the earliest poem included here, the much-anthologized “Baseball,” a stunning bird’s-eye view of human foibles and passions. Clear-eyed, full of paradoxical griefs and appetites, her poems brave the most urgent subjects—from the fraught luscious Eden of the ballpark, to the fragility of our closest human ties, to the implications for America in a world where power and war are cataclysmic for the strong as well as the weak.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073600340208,"sku":"9780226514505","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226514505_p0.jpg?v=1763674753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226514505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}