{"product_id":"9781937679460","title":"White Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Jenkins’s White Nights gathers together the translations, “imitations” and versions—mostly from French poets—that he has worked on intermittently for 25 years, with a handful of longer poems, previously unpublished or published underground. Jenkins speaks of difficult passions, loneliness, lovers and friends lost to time and death; he pays homage, with gratitude and a profound sympathy if not always with reverence, to those poets from the past who have been his truest companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Alan Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e“These beautifully rhymed and metered verses provide an image of the ‘accelerated grimace’ of our day—indeed, this is a composite portrait, like one of Hockney’s Polaroid assemblages, of a lonely, bitter dandy, the Spare Man, a black rosebud in his silk lapel. I love these poems.” —Edmund White\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sheep Meadow Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039807979760,"sku":"9781937679460","price":16.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937679460_p0.jpg?v=1763662162","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937679460","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}