{"product_id":"killing-orpheus-forester-mcclatchey-9780887487255","title":"Killing Orpheus","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious collection of poems that reckon with life and death through the point of view of famous speakers throughout history and literature, spanning from Penelope to Frankenstein's monster.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A book that holds death in one hand and wonder in the other, \u003ci\u003e Killing Orpheus \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the horror of mortality, the brutality of history, and the gentle miracles of love. Using received forms, especially the sonnet, this collection cycles through various speakers, including an aging Penelope, Frankenstein's monster, Isaac beneath Abraham's blade, and an elephant in Hannibal's army. Here are sprays of flowers and hungry alligators, lethal snakes, and a baby's first breath. Here are poems that reckon with death, but for the sake of life. Here is a poetic consciousness that shows us we must dare to make \"a truce with loss\" in order to go \"spinning into love's bizarre abyss.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Forester McClatchey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887487254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887487255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carnegie-Mellon University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Forester McClatchey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48089426985215,"sku":"9780887487255","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4a1166f-ae0c-4f15-8f11-df8332366556.jpg?v=1769110182","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/killing-orpheus-forester-mcclatchey-9780887487255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}