{"product_id":"9780819565785","title":"The Couple","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his Rider trilogy, Mark Rudman perfected a mixed genre form — combining dialogue, lyric and prose. While employing some of the same techniques that have become “signature Rudman” — the compact, colloquial line, dazzling shifts from popular culture to classical history — The Couple also breaks new ground. This new book is a collection of discrete poems organized around four poem sequences, “Long-Stemmed Rose,” “The Shallowness of the Lake,” “Perseus Surprised, Andromeda Unbound,” and “Fragile Craft.” As the title suggests, the theme of relationships, both dark and erotically-charged, emerges here as Rudman’s focus. The couples in the book include parents, lovers, a young boy and girl in elementary school, Perseus and Andromeda, Mary Ure and Robert Shaw, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026714870000,"sku":"9780819565785","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780819565785_p0.jpg?v=1763754386","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780819565785","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}