{"product_id":"desire-in-la-martha-clare-ronk-9780820311760","title":"Desire in L.A.: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesire in L.A.\u003c\/i\u003e confronts limitless longing in a city that is itself without limits. In these poems, the object of desire is decidedly missing, whether that object be love or beauty or the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShifting even within a single poem, and certainly from section to section, the objects of desire in Martha Ronk's poetry become as elusive as the unnamed Marilyn Monroe--\"that image of another's skirts\"--of the title poem, or the moment captured in \"A photograph as good as a picture\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"He leans forward with such \/ fervor, yet isn't young and something \/ decidedly is happening, even \/ to the beefy fellow in his white \/ short-sleeved shirt. A photograph-- \/ oh, perhaps not the same as a \/ Manet, but it is Auden, and \/ for whatever reason he stares at \/ the square flesh neckline \/ of her dress. He is forward \/ in his chair, rumpled about \/ the collar and everyone is wearing \/ black and white. It is the formal \/ occasion of how much he cares \/ to be there, Venice, 1951 \/ and how much I care to see him \/ no matter what for, longing \/ like that.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from thwarted examples of family and place to language and its corruptions, from classical Japanese love poems to failed love in the southwestern desert, from emotionality to artifice, the book ends with a series focused on the slipperiness of all categories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Clare Ronk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820311766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820311760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.54w x 0.35d","brand":"Martha Clare Ronk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926501163263,"sku":"9780820311760","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_63bed31d-564d-4c37-9cf7-da7e830a1598.jpg?v=1681083426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desire-in-la-martha-clare-ronk-9780820311760","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}