{"product_id":"album-for-the-young-and-old-9780451494788","title":"Album for the Young and Old","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of the accessible and evocative micro-verse from one of Russia''s most beloved poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVera Pavlova''s \u003ci\u003eIf There Is Something to Desire\u003c\/i\u003e delighted the poetry world a few years ago. Her poems, rarely longer than a few lines, thrill and puzzle us like Zen koans, considering matters philosophical, romantic, sexual, familial, artistic. \u003ci\u003eAlbum for the Young (and Old),\u003c\/i\u003e whose title poem takes its name and inspiration from Tchaikovsky’s music, carries us through a life in miniatures, drawing from a wide-ranging group of poems translated by the poet’s late husband, Steven Seymour. Here Pavlova returns to her childhood to peruse its key ingredients (“a glass jar, a rag, a sponge . . . Mom’s listening to the Beatles, \/ Dad, to Radio Liberty”), confronts adulthood (“And, please, no forbidden fruits!”), balances her loves and losses (“Without you, my unquenchable . . . woes are bearable, \/ joys are not”).","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525337555287,"sku":"9780451494788","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/album-for-the-young-and-old-9780451494788","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}