{"product_id":"9780802196569","title":"Louise in Love","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cb\u003ePoems inspired by silent-film star Louise Brooks from the National Book Critics Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eElegy \u003c\/i\u003eand acclaimed translator of Dante's\u003ci\u003e Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   In this stunning collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Louise is as musical as she is mysterious, and the reader is invited to listen. Bang, whose first collection was the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eApology for Want\u003c\/i\u003e, both parodies and pays homage to the lyric tradition, borrowing its lush music and dramatic structure to give new voice to the old concerns of the late Romantic poets.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLouise in Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a dramatic postmodern verse-novel. The poems, rife with literary allusion, take journeys to distant lands. And, like anyone on a voyage without a destination, they are endlessly questioning of the enigmatic world around them.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"One of the finest poets of her generation.\" —Marjorie Perloff","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128778146032,"sku":"9780802196569","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802196569_p0.jpg?v=1769906618","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802196569","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}