{"product_id":"dreamlife-of-a-philanthropist-9780268033224","title":"Dreamlife of a Philanthropist","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a salve in one hand and a burcher's knife in the other, Janet Kaplan offers her masterful third collection, \u003ci\u003eDreamlife of a Philanthropist\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2011 Ernest Sandeen prize in Poetry. The prose poems and sonnets in \u003ci\u003eDreamlife\u003c\/i\u003e are packed with postmodern language-leaping, modern irony and absurdity, and a poet's ageless ear for the pleasures of the lyric and formal experimentation. These are poems that can never quite abandon the hope that life--and language--are worthy pursuits; but they never offer up easy assurances about the benefits of humanity to anyone or anything. Get ready for dogs that wail and overtake the scene; an invitation to make love on a mattress of ants; and the philanthropist of the title, who dreams that people are tuned into fish. It's \"good luck and bad in random but equal measure,\" Kaplan writes in \"Life and Times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.13w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268033224","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273969991817,"sku":"9780268033224","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a6fecf24-be49-4884-ad6a-05e262061b57.jpg?v=1736844026","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dreamlife-of-a-philanthropist-9780268033224","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}