{"product_id":"meadowlands-9780880015066","title":"Meadowlands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, \u003cem\u003eMeadowlands \u003c\/em\u003eexplores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey: \u003c\/em\u003ethe \"unanswerable\/affliction of the human heart: how to divide\/the world's beauty into acceptable\/and unacceptable loves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGluck, Louise:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eProofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, \u003c\/em\u003e she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Ages\u003c\/em\u003e. Louise Glück teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50611097403666,"sku":"9780880015066","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cfbc0337-3a2b-4cb7-b6ba-d4efcac72cac.jpg?v=1732356925","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/meadowlands-9780880015066","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}