{"product_id":"lamentations","title":"Lamentations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Lamentations\u003c\/em\u003e is a thing of beauty . . . elegant, melancholy, rueful, and profound.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Hagedorn\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant, darkly beautiful poems collected in \u003cem\u003eLAMENTATIONS \u003c\/em\u003eare a posthumous selection of early and late works by a poet too little known during his lifetime. Like Plath's \u003cem\u003eARIEL\u003c\/em\u003e, it takes us deep into the inner world of a writer who, though battered by periodic depressions, displayed thrilling mastery as an artist. Through a chorus of voices—a gentle gay Orpheus recalling his blissful life and its nightmarish end; a college boy visiting friends by the sea; Lot fleeing from his burning city; an elderly man on a road trip to nowhere—Franklin guides us across a landscape of loss lit by flashes of ecstasy. The result is a book that feels at once agonizing and affirmative, revelatory and terrifyingly familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Over and over in these astonishing poems, George Franklin turns the momentary into the eternal and the minute particulars of a dramatic individual experience, with all its specified ardors and intimacies, into the experience of a civilization and of our species. The transformations are stunning in their scope and scale. The eloquence and the depth of articulation are a source of constant joy.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eVijay Seshadri\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526383554835,"sku":"9798988242963","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/f20bbe584168e6b005c34d8426baf77b.jpg?v=1785852308","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/lamentations","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}