{"product_id":"dreamlife-of-a-philanthropist","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\n","brand":"Janet Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43571973030070,"sku":"9780268033224","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780268033224_b687c30a-68d1-4557-8160-a33f3f723994.jpg?v=1726822559","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/dreamlife-of-a-philanthropist","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}