{"product_id":"midlife-9781939574381","title":"Midlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of short lyrics, imitations, and dramatic monologues, \u003cem\u003eMidlife\u003c\/em\u003e contains the best poems Matthew Buckley Smith has written in the nine years since his debut collection. Though the poems in \u003cem\u003eMidlife\u003c\/em\u003e are not limited to any single project, many touch on recurrent themes, among these the trials of childrearing and marriage, the ever-present shadow of what Larkin calls \"Extinction's alp,\" and the anxious search for meaning that so often attends middle age. As suggested by the epigraph, this is a book that treats with compassion the paradoxical longing that so many of us share with Flaubert's heroine, namely \"to die, and also to live in Paris.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Measure Press Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613539143954,"sku":"9781939574381","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d03561a8-54ab-4773-b011-af08ebd25047.jpg?v=1732406399","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/midlife-9781939574381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}