{"product_id":"the-pleasure-principle-field-poetry-paperback-9780932440907","title":"The Pleasure Principle Field Poetry Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile The Pleasure Principle is full of surprises, both narrative and metaphoric, it is more than anything a humane and thoughtful exploration of the human condition: passion, mortality, cross-dressing, time, tourism, art, the shifty nature of reality, and, always considered in Loomis's work, the unknowable absolute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRomance: A Parable • The Pleasure Principle • Sin • You Blow Out the Candles • Longing • Epithalamial • Addictions • Happiness • Conversion • Balthus Returns • Russian Novel • Millennial • Skinnydipping, Late Summer • After the Rapture • On the First Tee with Charles Wright • Uncle Chester’s Second Wife • Tourists • Prayer at Thirty Below • Race Point Vanitas • Tall Ships • In the Old City • Dark City • Desiccated Mouse Found on Screen Porch • Insomnia Dentata • Ovid in Florida • Fire Ants • Nursing Home • 1882: The Afterlife • In Circe’s Garden • Letter from the Cardiac Unit • The Past • Uncle • Pneumonia, 1969 • Camping Trip • This Poet’s Life: A Memoir • Interiors • Regret • Damage • Peace • Mis en Abime • In the Mirror It Is Sunday • Misfit Farm • November • Sex • Ars Poetica • Deer Hit • Notes • Acknowledgments","brand":"Oberlin College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406530552151,"sku":"9780932440907","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780932440907.jpg?v=1730496176","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-pleasure-principle-field-poetry-paperback-9780932440907","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}