{"product_id":"pyrrhic-symphony","title":"Pyrrhic Symphony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e, the speaker asks, \"Should a poem be the pill or the pharmacy?\" And the book replies: Why not both? It ails and wails, blooms and wilts, but always breathes, just as anyone reading this does. Part siren songs, part torch songs, \u003ci\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e sings wry lullabies for apocalypses public, personal, and politic, moving from cruise ships to Krakatoa, from a dentist's office to a marriage as it explores how love, family, community, and art can function in the face of an increasingly hostile climate. And in lamenting how \"all I ever wanted from love \/ was that it never change,\" the feverish speaker goes toe-to-toe with the nurse who watches over him as they encounter and recount a world of late capitalist excess. By turns ecstatic and demonic, tender and terrifying, \u003ci\u003ePyrrhic Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e stands as an act of musical witness and cautious hope in this age of corrupted wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504796770677,"sku":"9781496247919","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781496247919.jpg?v=1786953714","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/pyrrhic-symphony","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}