{"product_id":"9781450274722","title":"Inventing Love: A Sonnet Sequence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey met when both were young and she already married, with waist-long, gold-red hair that called instantly to mind Sappho’s “girl with hair like a falling flame.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow, nearly half a century later, award-winning poet Frank Salvidio has gathered together the sonnets addressed to her, some previously published in journals and anthologies, and fashioned them into a sonnet sequence which chronicles their enigmatic, mutual attraction, which dates from that first meeting. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether it is, as she suggests, a love invented to provide a poet with a theme, or the fatal attraction which his poetry expresses, these sonnets trace its history from the point of view of someone who still does not know if it is real or illusory; and their arrangement recreates this quixotic relationship in all its ambiguity, from the closing couplet of the title sonnet, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e “Yet if your hard analysis is true\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat fabled love sustains me, still it’s you,” \u003c\/p\u003e to the conclusion of the last, which defines it as \u003cp\u003e “………………..a play within\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA play of ifs and buts, of would and should, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA world not realized, not understood.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182389412080,"sku":"9781450274722","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450274722_p0.jpg?v=1763840045","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450274722","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}