{"product_id":"midlife-hardcover","title":"Midlife - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of short lyrics, imitations, and dramatic monologues, \u003cem\u003eMidlife\u003c\/em\u003e contains the best poems Matthew Buckley Smith has written in the nine years since his debut collection. Though the poems in \u003cem\u003eMidlife\u003c\/em\u003e are not limited to any single project, many touch on recurrent themes, among these the trials of childrearing and marriage, the ever-present shadow of what Larkin calls \"Extinction's alp,\" and the anxious search for meaning that so often attends middle age. As suggested by the epigraph, this is a book that treats with compassion the paradoxical longing that so many of us share with Flaubert's heroine, namely \"to die, and also to live in Paris.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376678437087,"sku":"9781939574381","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/h9BntG9E-Q9781939574381.webp?v=1789221672","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/midlife-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}