{"product_id":"when-you-read-a-novel-the-dead-would-like","title":"When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom distinguished poet Benjamin S. Grossberg comes a bracing exploration of how the fear of death softens into acceptance. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin S. Grossberg's \u003ci\u003eWhen You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like\u003c\/i\u003e is about how we come to understand death--sometimes in terror, sometimes in loss, and perhaps, in the sober assessments of middle age, with calm acceptance, when what may have loomed as a nightmare can come to seem unremarkable, familiar, even a \"private wonder.\" The poems span the trauma of coming out as a gay man at the height of the US AIDS epidemic to the advent of PrEP--a class of HIV-prevention drugs--twenty-five years later. The poems wrestle with the growing awareness that, though one bugbear may press less close, death still waits, patient and inevitable. A series of elegies for the poet's mother, who returns as a wry, irreverent ghost \"swirling\/ice cubes in a tumbler of vodka,\" lies at the heart of this ranging, cinematic collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benjamin S Grossberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68006917046423,"sku":"9781960327215","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_025530b1-19dd-49cf-aeb5-987a9bd0d3fd.jpg?v=1791168570","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/when-you-read-a-novel-the-dead-would-like","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}