{"product_id":"descartes-loneliness-9780811217118","title":"Descartes' Loneliness","description":"Allen Grossman's newest work \u003cem\u003eDescartes' Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death. Poems such as The Famished Dead, where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, one at a time, confirm Jorie Graham's observation that from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard--Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrossman, Allen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAllen Grossman\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872865390866,"sku":"9780811217118","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e865536-db62-4269-a7e0-884be3469741.jpg?v=1737913327","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/descartes-loneliness-9780811217118","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}