{"product_id":"middle-distance-9780393882490","title":"Middle Distance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA probing and commanding final volume from a master poet facing his own mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these beautiful pages, his last gift to us, Stanley Plumly has gathered his beloveds in a single space: the landscapes, the poets, the light of evening, and ‘the one true angel’ of childhood. In poems so easy with cadence you might almost imagine that nature herself had invented the stately stanzas and the five-beat line. In prose so rapt with noticing you can almost believe the page remembers the tree it was. This is the poet’s final blessing: to hold the precious world in two good hands and say goodbye.\" -- Linda Gregerson\u003cbr\u003e\"When Stanley Plumly died of cancer on April 11, 2019, I reread everything I could get my hands on, from In the Outer Dark to Against Sunset; the beautiful prose books, too. Nothing, or everything, prepared me for his \u003cem\u003eMiddle Distance\u003c\/em\u003e. Scary, forth\" -- James Longenbach","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402030817623,"sku":"9780393882490","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393882490.jpg?v=1730479194","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/middle-distance-9780393882490","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}