{"product_id":"memories-of-a-lover-9781038318657","title":"Memories of a Lover","description":"Rejected love, ecstatic love, misguided love-Memories of a Lover explores complex and intensely vivid experiences of love and relationship in this collection of poems. Rare moments of perfect connection between the lover and the beloved sit alongside raw fear and compulsive self-destructiveness as the poet\/lover unsparingly records his memories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you were a song, \u003cbr\u003eI'd listen until I was deaf.\u003cbr\u003eI would listen until all I could hear was silence, \u003cbr\u003eI'd prefer silence over any sound that isn't you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis almost forensic look at love takes place in four chapters under ancient Greek titles-Oneirataxia (inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy), anaxiphilia (choice of wrong lovers), philophobia (fear of falling in love), and agape (unconditional love)-proving that our struggles to understand this powerful emotion are both millennia-old and as recent as yesterday. The collection will appeal particularly to those aged 14-30, at a stage in their life where they are meeting love and romance for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI say hello to you, \u003cbr\u003eRisking a goodbye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI reach for your hand, \u003cbr\u003eRisking its retraction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI lean to kiss you, \u003cbr\u003eRisking your pull away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI love you, \u003cbr\u003eRisking the heartbreak.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872304861458,"sku":"9781038318657","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_905b1ce0-368f-4206-a005-26c49af3b791.jpg?v=1737893659","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memories-of-a-lover-9781038318657","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}