{"product_id":"9780998194943","title":"Love Poems for the Socially Anxious \u0026 Other Maladies","description":"Love Poems for the Socially Anxious\u0026amp; Other Maladies is an unsentimental, conflicted, and ultimately healing look at love from the perspective of a longing for union and the loneliness of being one of a pair. Iannuzzi unflinchingly reports and explores phone calls, absences, awkward moments, miscommunications, making up, and intimacies in clean lean language. And I appreciate her deft control over forms, from short to long, from cryptic lyric to expressive prose poems. She excels in simple, haunting short forms as well: \"to be asked what love is\" comprises five short lines: \"two toothbrushes\/ in a cup\/ beside the sink\/ where there used to be one\/ and no cup\/\"\u003cbr\u003eIn all, she gives us a whole experience and exploration of love in our time with flashes of luminous images, as in \"fragments\/ of our\/ patchwork souls.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Judith Stanton","brand":"St. Andrews University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50080703742192,"sku":"9780998194943","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998194943","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}