{"product_id":"delirium-9781574410037","title":"Delirium","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 1994.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Hamby makes her poems out of jokes, Italian phrases, quotes from saints and philosophers, references to meals eaten and wines drunk. In a fluid, compelling voice, she sets a stage, peoples it with real and imagined characters, spins them into dizzying motion, and then makes everything disappear as with a wave of a conjurer's wand, leaving the reader to wonder, \"Did that happen, or did I dream it?\" One leaves her poetry the way one leaves a dark theater on a July afternoon, convinced that the ordinary passions really won't do--they need to be larger, as large as they are in these poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Hamby was born in New Orleans and was raised in Hawai'i. She is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNegative Capability\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356998701330,"sku":"9781574410037","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3496f48-ea00-4841-a944-34467978ebde.jpg?v=1728315755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/delirium-9781574410037","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}