{"product_id":"earnest-earnest-poems-9780822966302","title":"Earnest, Earnest?: Poems","description":"In \u003ci\u003eEarnest, Earnest?\u003c\/i\u003e, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover's name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor's lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet's self. The ambiguity at play in \u003ci\u003eEarnest, Earnest?\u003c\/i\u003e is embodied in the form of the \"Earnest Postcards\" that structure the book--these postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, \u003ci\u003eEarnest, Earnest?\u003c\/i\u003e is a question of tone, address, and form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom \"You Marry a Man\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e You marry a man and you think his blood is red. \u003cbr\u003e Turns out it's not, it's purple. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This doesn't matter, is not why you married him, \u003cbr\u003e but you did--you thought his blood was red. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And he has never read Shakespeare, knows nothing \u003cbr\u003e of the quality of mercy, but he reminds you every \u003cbr\u003e day that you are not Shakespeare. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou know you're not Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, Eleanor, he says.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Eleanor Boudreau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644855152796,"sku":"9780822966302","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f9d0675c-abd1-4165-9340-937245e719f1.jpg?v=1603859641","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/earnest-earnest-poems-9780822966302","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}