{"product_id":"9780330515221","title":"To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarol Ann Duffy's beautiful anthology features an eclectic mix of poems that chart human fascination with the moon across the centuries and around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Ann Duffy on \u003ci\u003eTo the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Editing \u003ci\u003eAnswering Back\u003c\/i\u003e, in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon. I then started to keep a record of such references, and from my notebook, I see that in one morning alone I came across no fewer than nine poems, from the likes of Coleridge, Graves, Rosetti and Rowe - and it was this selection that initially inspired \u003ci\u003eTo the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 BC, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the Moon itself:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI saw him coming on the southern road. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMy heart lays down its load. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In collecting together poems such as these - poems that span continents and centuries - \u003ci\u003eTo the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108615012592,"sku":"9780330515221","price":13.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780330515221_p0.jpg?v=1763683861","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780330515221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}