{"product_id":"dear-ms-schubert-9780691207483","title":"Dear Ms. Schubert","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism.\" * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDear Ms. Schubert\u003c\/i\u003e is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world.\"\u003cb\u003e---L. Ali Khan, \u003ci\u003eNY Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in \u003ci\u003eDear Ms. Schubert\u003c\/i\u003e] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. —Kyle Torke, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of \u003ci\u003eDear Ms. Schubert\u003c\/i\u003e are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker\/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alice-Catherine Carls, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403897217367,"sku":"9780691207483","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691207483.jpg?v=1730484828","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dear-ms-schubert-9780691207483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}