{"product_id":"9781574410037","title":"Delirium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 1994.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Hamby makes her poems out of jokes, Italian phrases, quotes from saints and philosophers, references to meals eaten and wines drunk. In a fluid, compelling voice, she sets a stage, peoples it with real and imagined characters, spins them into dizzying motion, and then makes everything disappear as with a wave of a conjurer's wand, leaving the reader to wonder, “Did that happen, or did I dream it?” One leaves her poetry the way one leaves a dark theater on a July afternoon, convinced that the ordinary passions really won't do—they need to be larger, as large as they are in these poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050341679344,"sku":"9781574410037","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574410037_p0.jpg?v=1763797203","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574410037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}