{"product_id":"pastorals-9781939574398","title":"Pastorals","description":"By noon, now in mid-September, tall shadows are already looming, dark and melodramatic, striping the lawn and garden. Friendly ghosts remain, but most of the guests have receded, each taking with them a jar of applesauce to taste or inhale and remember. Or to give away. Emptier, the house seems both bigger and smaller. A cycle fills with stillness. Silence grows on the trees. These last mornings I put on the rubber boots I bought at Morrison's Feed Bag, the crimson boots imprinted with yellow chickens, and head out across the cold wet spiderweb-spangled grass toward the Duchess tree. \"May something always go unharvested,\" wrote Robert Frost. Almost everything goes unharvested. I pick an apple up and take a bite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHadas, Rachel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rachel Hadas's recent books include Love and Dread, Pandemic Almanac, and Ghost Guest. Her translations include Euripides's Iphigenia plays and a portion of Nonnus's Tales of Dionysus. Professor Emerita at Rutgers-Newark, where she taught for many years, she now teaches at 92Y in New York City and serves as poetry editor of Classical Outlook. Her honors include a Guggenheim fellowship and an award from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters.","brand":"Measure Press Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324722839826,"sku":"9781939574398","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ce51bc9-0b4c-44b9-abd6-5d1f31ec3c0c.jpg?v=1748699136","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pastorals-9781939574398","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}