{"product_id":"if-you-love-that-lady-poems","title":"If You Love That Lady: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to the pursuit of the unattainable. The title sequence dramatizes the paradox of correspondence: The private worlds shaped by the act of writing, and the expectant silences that charge our lives. Drawing from nineteenth-century courtship letters, the collection lingers in the rush of love and the resurrection that follows: \"Happiness was no small thing, \/ but neither was its cost.\" Delivered with piercing elegance and signature wit--\"What a formidable excuse he was. \/ What a pair of borrowed eyes \/ with a side of Keats\"--these poems teach us that desire, like poetry, depends on revelation and restraint alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart elegy to the passing of impossible things, part \u003cem\u003ears poetica\u003c\/em\u003e to the possibility of remaking, \u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e explores the inventiveness of longing and its relentless drive, proving that what breaks us open at last reveals us to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maya C Popa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43871228788778,"sku":"9781324124566","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/if-you-love-that-lady-poems-6644972.jpg?v=1764750253","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/if-you-love-that-lady-poems","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}