{"product_id":"the-unbecoming-kathy-fagan-9781324131397","title":"The Unbecoming: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a sketch of the Virgin and Child, Michelangelo instructed his young assistant, in shorthand Italian, to \u003cem\u003eDraw faster\u003c\/em\u003e, acknowledging that life lasts a moment, death--and art--far longer. As an aging, bi, childless poet currently recognizing the limits of her own life and that of our planet, Kathy Fagan has immersed herself in the intimate and urgent discovery that growth and decay are the same cycle, and that art and memory, made in the tumultuous rush of these, are the deeply human attempts to outlast them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFagan's luminous seventh collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Unbecoming\u003c\/em\u003e, begins with the sequence \"Listening to Others,\" and a command, \u003cem\u003eRun\u003c\/em\u003e, into a process that is, for all of us, a circle of becoming and unbecoming simultaneously. Favoring perspective over nostalgia and clarity over certainty, the poems are, then, memento mori, a loving reminder, a poet's reckoning with the rewards and losses of age, and with our painfully beautiful little lives \"rounded with a sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathy Fagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 132413139X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324131397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kathy Fagan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48443125793023,"sku":"9781324131397","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1606d17-bb46-48f4-9e5b-0daad737c493.jpg?v=1777202013","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unbecoming-kathy-fagan-9781324131397","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}