{"product_id":"the-grief-of-a-happy-life-9780295746166","title":"The Grief of a Happy Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Christopher Howell's twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. \u003ci\u003eThe Grief of a Happy Life\u003c\/i\u003e explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that happiness and grief inform one another and give our lives fullness and vitality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArranged in four sections, Howell's poems feature not only these concerns, but a large and various cast of characters as well. Aeneas, Saint Theresa, Ovid, Kierkegaard, a German submarine, and so much more are woven together with Howell's trademark precision and accessibility into exquisite tableaux, each providing a view of both what we must live with and what we must not live without.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Portland, Oregon, \u003cb\u003eChristopher Howell\u003c\/b\u003e is author of a dozen poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eLove's Last Numbe\u003c\/i\u003er, \u003ci\u003eGaze\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received numerous honors, including the Washington State Book Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust, and three Pushcart Prizes. A military journalist during the Vietnam War, he has been for many years director and principal editor for Lynx House Press and now lives in Spokane, Washington, where he teaches in Eastern Washington University's master of fine arts in creative writing program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318855700754,"sku":"9780295746166","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63ac35ee-6814-48be-9b64-79a266844d0e.jpg?v=1727561827","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-grief-of-a-happy-life-9780295746166","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}