{"product_id":"if-you-love-that-lady-1","title":"If You Love That Lady","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\u003eDesire’s what’s the matter\u003cbr\u003ewith our lives, a sea parting\u003cbr\u003eto reveal another sea.\u003cbr\u003eIts command renews,\u003cbr\u003eswells and beckons:\u003cbr\u003eyou’d be a fool not to love\u003cbr\u003euntil the last second.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507826925941,"sku":"9781324124566","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/if-you-love-that-lady-1","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}