{"product_id":"elegies-9780811221061","title":"Elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.\" -- Muriel Rukeyser, \"Elegy in Joy\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published by New Directions in 1949, Muriel Rukeyser's \u003cem\u003eElegies\u003c\/em\u003e were written over a seven years period the end of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the beginnings of the Cold War. Both and homage to Rilke's \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e and a spiritual reckoning that is particularly resonant today, these poems present no angelic orders, only the difficulties of living in the modern world, the depths of shipwreck, and \"Love that gives us ourselves, in the world known to all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811221061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Muriel Rukeyser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43103785812149,"sku":"9780811221061","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7cb6679c-b83b-4955-8c19-ab7c9eb3e2e6.jpg?v=1693279929","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elegies-9780811221061","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}