{"product_id":"06-22-2021-forever-by-james-longenbach","title":"Longenbach, James: Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003eW. W. Norton, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 22, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraised for a voice with \"the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet\" (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his seventh collection. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e begins and ends with love: its discovery in the first poem, \"Two People,\" and its maintenance in the last, \"Forever.\" In between, the collection explores the precariously imminent demise of all that we love--the finite lives of other people, the mortal beauty of Venice--all thrown into urgent relief by the poet's own cancer. The poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e look back gratefully--excitedly--on a lifetime of self-making and self-shattering events.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33025313046551,"sku":"9780393866537","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/jl_df175c56-5619-4dec-93f7-e87d5fecdafa.gif?v=1611190553","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/06-22-2021-forever-by-james-longenbach","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}