{"product_id":"midlife-matthew-buckley-smith-9781939574381","title":"Midlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of short lyrics, imitations, and dramatic monologues, \u003cem\u003eMidlife\u003c\/em\u003e contains the best poems Matthew Buckley Smith has written in the nine years since his debut collection. Though the poems in \u003cem\u003eMidlife\u003c\/em\u003e are not limited to any single project, many touch on recurrent themes, among these the trials of childrearing and marriage, the ever-present shadow of what Larkin calls \"Extinction's alp,\" and the anxious search for meaning that so often attends middle age. As suggested by the epigraph, this is a book that treats with compassion the paradoxical longing that so many of us share with Flaubert's heroine, namely \"to die, and also to live in Paris.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Buckley Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939574382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939574381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Measure Press Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Matthew Buckley Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44616825929983,"sku":"9781939574381","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b68f717a-4225-4751-8789-78bfc936b54e.jpg?v=1703022533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith-9781939574381","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}