{"product_id":"if-you-love-that-lady-poems-9781324124566","title":"If You Love That Lady: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe stunning third collection from award-winning poet Maya C. Popa dramatizes the paradox of correspondence: the private worlds shaped by the act of writing, and the charged silences that follow. Drawing from nineteenth-century courtship letters, the collection lingers in the rush of love and its fallout: \"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 remind us that our appetites, like poetry, depend on revelation and restraint alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in America, England, and Romania, these poems are part elegy to the passing of impossible things, part ars poetica of remaking. \u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e explores the inventive, relentless drive of longing, proving that what breaks us open at last reveals us to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Dark Matter\" \u003cbr\u003e Desire's what's the matter\u003cbr\u003e with our lives, a sea parting\u003cbr\u003e to reveal another sea.\u003cbr\u003e Its command renews, \u003cbr\u003e swells and beckons: \u003cbr\u003e you'd be a fool not to love\u003cbr\u003e until the last second.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maya C. Popa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324124566","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464951611529,"sku":"9781324124566","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6391aae8-e126-4100-8210-0e5d8755d1e8.jpg?v=1784060424","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/if-you-love-that-lady-poems-9781324124566","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}