{"product_id":"9780393253955","title":"Against Sunset: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, \u003cem\u003eAgainst Sunset\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom “Against Sunset”\u003cbr\u003e The horizon, halfway disappeared between above and below—\u003cbr\u003e night falls too or does it also rise out of the death-glitter of water?\u003cbr\u003e And if night is the long straight path of the full moon pouring down\u003cbr\u003e on the face of the deep, what makes us wish we could walk there,\u003cbr\u003e like a flat skipped stone?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104266928368,"sku":"9780393253955","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393253955_p0.jpg?v=1763696839","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393253955","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}