{"product_id":"9780872865815","title":"Advice for Lovers: City Lights Spotlight #7","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by Ovid's instructional \u003ci\u003eArs Amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e , with overtones of Renaissance sonnet cycles, \u003ci\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly wrought volume of poems. Intricately formal but saucy and contemporary in diction, \u003ci\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e walks a fine line between the anything-goes orthography of the Elizabethans and the shifting etymologies of James Joyce. Sexy, kinky, disquieting, \u003ci\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e blazes an erotic trail into the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What if I'm spirited away to live in a torch song?—Where the landscape is a lover's discourse? Julian Talamantez Brolaski has me in thrall! In this enchanting book, Julian jacks up the artifice and jacks up the feeling.\" – \u003cb\u003eRobert Glück\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eAdvice for Lovers \u003c\/i\u003e is the type of book that makes you see language with fresh eyes, challenging you toward something fiercer and more honest yet. It leaves you bruised and aching to be bruised again, and isn’t that what you were asking for after all?\" \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e —The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003ci\u003egowanus atropolis\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and editor at \u003ci\u003eAufgabe\u003c\/i\u003e and Litmus Press, \u003cb\u003eJulian Talamantez Brolaski\u003c\/b\u003e studied with Nathaniel Mackey, Elizabeth Willis, and Robert Hass. Xe rejects gendered pronouns and lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at The New School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012453056752,"sku":"9780872865815","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872865815_p0.jpg?v=1763850759","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872865815","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}