{"product_id":"9781947980112","title":"Losses of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eLosses of Life is comprised of two long poems:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first, Child of Man, derived from Emerson’s journals, letters, and essays, is an elegy for the death of Emerson’s son Waldo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second, Stations, is a sequence of poems exploring losses of a different sort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Hoffman’s “sharp-eyed and agile” poems are “teeming with surprise”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Patrick Pritchett)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“deserve to be better and more widely-known” (Eileen Tabios).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The quality of the verse… is undeniable; there are great pleasures to be had in Hoffman’s lines” (Jason Ranek).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis poetry manifests a “restless and manifold creativity, a creativity Emerson himself would have saluted” (Anthony Rudolf).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spuyten Duyvil","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063553605872,"sku":"9781947980112","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781947980112_p0.jpg?v=1763801865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781947980112","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}