{"product_id":"9781625490773","title":"Wilmot Here, Collect for Stella","description":"A duet that spans the years, Christian Anton Gerard's WILMOT HERE, COLLECT FOR STELLA brings all the joyous, bitter, and mundane moments of a lifetime spent together.\u003cp\u003e\"Chronology be damned. Say the most notorious Libertine of Restoration England places a phone call to the reigning mistress of Petrarchan address a century earlier. Say she's his long-suffering wife. Does she accept the charges? You'd better hope so; you'll miss a whole world of exorbitant fun if she does not. These poems are as gorgeous a romp as wit and irreverence and masterful craft can make. A jazz musician's timing, imagination hungry as the ocean and, behind the alter egos and their buffetings, a mind of tempered kindness and a heart for grown-up love. This is a ravishing debut.\" - Linda Gregerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, absurd, rollicking, whimsically allusive and sophisticated, WILMOT HERE, COLLECT FOR STELLA is a requited version of Astrophil \u0026amp; Stella and in its literary and cultural mash-ups and marital misprisons is something like 'The Honeymooners' meets 'The Courtier'.\" - Michael Collier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Christian Anton Gerard's debut collection enacts the obsessive psychological scaffolding of Sidney's Astrophil \u0026amp; Stella-though not the sonnet sequence's form-in these slyly post-confessional lyrics that dramatize the troubled love of the personae Wilmot and Stella. Gerard's self-reflexive 'he said\/she said' dialogic structure frames the bracing self-interrogations of Wilmot, haunted variously by his marital infidelity, paternal legacies, and vexing adolescence. Between Wilmot and Stella, and within Gerard's fraught and intimate poems, the 'Ghosts keep us moving.'\" - Anna Journey\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WordTech Communications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057810718960,"sku":"9781625490773","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781625490773_p0.jpg?v=1763860981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781625490773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}