{"product_id":"inventing-love-frank-salvidio-9781450274708","title":"Inventing Love: A Sonnet Sequence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey met when both were young and she already married, with waist-long, gold-red hair that called instantly to mind Sappho's \"girl with hair like a falling flame.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow, nearly half a century later, award-winning poet Frank Salvidio has gathered together the sonnets addressed to her, some previously published in journals and anthologies, and fashioned them into a sonnet sequence which chronicles their enigmatic, mutual attraction, which dates from that first meeting. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether it is, as she suggests, a love invented to provide a poet with a theme, or the fatal attraction which his poetry expresses, these sonnets trace its history from the point of view of someone who still does not know if it is real or illusory; and their arrangement recreates this quixotic relationship in all its ambiguity, from the closing couplet of the title sonnet, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"Yet if your hard analysis is true\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat fabled love sustains me, still it's you,\" \u003c\/p\u003e to the conclusion of the last, which defines it as \u003cp\u003e \"....................a play within\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA play of ifs and buts, of would and should, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA world not realized, not understood.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Salvidio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1450274706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781450274708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Frank Salvidio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44365227753727,"sku":"9781450274708","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_755ebbb5-438f-481c-87e1-4e59fec40f29.jpg?v=1697057342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-love-frank-salvidio-9781450274708","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}