{"product_id":"sleeping-with-the-moon-9780252074769","title":"Sleeping with the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN Oakland National Literary Award, 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection's award-winning poems animate women's experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver lining of lust, love, illness, and aging. Rich with vivid imagery and candid storytelling, Sleeping with the Moon takes readers on moonlit adventures under the night sky, through the barroom's smoky haze, and under the covers. \u003cp\u003e ...Beware: such delicate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e sights have driven more than one woman to despair \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e instead she watched him breathe-- relishing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e for a moment that secret space where night \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e grows soft and the moon's detumescence forgives-- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e and where if this jeweled light holds they might \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e strip themselves of years if only for one night \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --from \"In Praise of Older Women\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252074769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.14w x 0.37d","brand":"Colleen J. McElroy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45439053889717,"sku":"9780252074769","price":17.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ac824601-b2e0-48e3-b093-42b68396df47.jpg?v=1749003245","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sleeping-with-the-moon-9780252074769","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}