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Tantalus In Love
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Alan Shapiro
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
April 7, 2005
Pages
87
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780618452422
ISBN-10
0618452427
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
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Original list price
$22.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A collection of poems centered around the dissolution of a marriage probes the territory of recovery, loss, and healing in the aftermath of failed relationships, probing jealousy, romance, and lust, among other pertinent topics.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Kingsley Tufts Award winner Alan Shapiro is at his most passionate in this new collection full of life, jealousy, lust, and romantic abandon.
Tantalus in Love begins with the disintegration of a marriage, with anger and suspicion. But from sorrow Shapiro moves to celebrate the resilience of love after loss, and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. In "Invocation" he writes, "Love . . . let there be never again / a moment in which / your sudden shining isn't / sudden." These poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of loveâs evanescence and uncertainty. "Iris / love flower of the middle-aged . . . the stalk / bends under the unexpected weight . . . how did I ever live without you?" Tantalus in Love reinvents myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, illuminating this defining vulnerability of humanity.
Tantalus in Love begins with the disintegration of a marriage, with anger and suspicion. But from sorrow Shapiro moves to celebrate the resilience of love after loss, and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. In "Invocation" he writes, "Love . . . let there be never again / a moment in which / your sudden shining isn't / sudden." These poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of loveâs evanescence and uncertainty. "Iris / love flower of the middle-aged . . . the stalk / bends under the unexpected weight . . . how did I ever live without you?" Tantalus in Love reinvents myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, illuminating this defining vulnerability of humanity.
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Hardcover
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from Houghton Mifflin (April 7, 2005)
9780618452422 | details & prices | 87 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $22.00
About: A collection of poems centered around the dissolution of a marriage probes the territory of recovery, loss, and healing in the aftermath of failed relationships, probing jealousy, romance, and lust, among other pertinent topics.
About: A collection of poems centered around the dissolution of a marriage probes the territory of recovery, loss, and healing in the aftermath of failed relationships, probing jealousy, romance, and lust, among other pertinent topics.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Mariner Books (September 4, 2006)
9780618773640 | details & prices | 87 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $13.95
About: A collection of poems centered around the dissolution of a marriage probes the territory of recovery, loss, and healing in the aftermath of failed relationships, probing jealousy, romance, and lust, among other pertinent topics.
About: A collection of poems centered around the dissolution of a marriage probes the territory of recovery, loss, and healing in the aftermath of failed relationships, probing jealousy, romance, and lust, among other pertinent topics.
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