{"product_id":"losers-dream-on-mark-halliday-9780226533599","title":"Losers Dream on","description":"We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces--time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion--win victories over us each day. We all \"know\" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained--in family life, in romance, in work, in citizenship. What obsesses Halliday in \u003ci\u003eLosers Dream On \u003c\/i\u003eis how to recognize reality without relinquishing the pleasure and creativity and courage of our dreaming. \u003cbr\u003e Halliday's poetry exploits the vast array of dictions, idioms, rhetorical maneuvers, and tones available to real-life speakers (including speakers talking to themselves). Often Halliday gives a poem to a speaker who is distressed, angry, confused, defensive, self-excusing, or driven by yearning, so that the poem may dramatize the speaker's state of mind while also implying the poet's ironic perspective on the speaker. Meanwhile, a few other poems (for instance \"A Gender Theory\" and \"Thin White Shirts\" and \"First Wife\" and \"You Lament\") try to push beyond irony into earnestness and wholehearted declaration. The tension between irony and belief is the engine of Halliday's poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Halliday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022653359X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226533599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Mark Halliday","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913438953727,"sku":"9780226533599","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_98bf62d2-0745-4927-82ac-6381a0d63bc5.jpg?v=1680620406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/losers-dream-on-mark-halliday-9780226533599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}