{"product_id":"9780887483554","title":"Resort","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Patricia Hampl’s first book of poems, Woman Before an Aquarium, appeared in 1978, Choice called it “a generous . . . first collection,” and Virginia Quarterly Review characterized her work as “a poetry of accumulated details, strikingly presented.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, after the success of her brilliant prose memoir, A Romantic Education, which won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, Hampl has taken her poetry a step further in her new collection, Resort. The classical themes of beauty and love, loss and memory have always formed the core of Hampl’s work. Here, they are treated in a series of shorter poems and then gathered powerfully into the long title poem of the collection. Set in a small, tumbledown cabin on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Resort follows the season of summer as Hampl explores a period of solitude following a loss, employing as a touchstone the image of the wild rose as it blooms and withers. In essence a poem about healing oneself through paying attention to the world outside, Resort has been called by poet Sandra McPherson “major, richly entangled, ebullient . . . all of a sudden my favorite long poem.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carnegie-Mellon University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022811447536,"sku":"9780887483554","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780887483554_p0.jpg?v=1763856366","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780887483554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}