{"product_id":"9780393867893","title":"The Curious Thing: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this gorgeous third collection, Sandra Lim investigates desire, sexuality, and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Curious Thing\u003c\/em\u003e are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim's poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot summer day. An extended poem sequence slyly revolves the meanings of finding oneself astray in midlife. A steely strength courses through the volume's myriad discoveries-Lim's lucidity and tenderness form a striking complement to her remarkable metaphors and the emotional clamor of her material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnimated by a sense of reckoning and a piercing inwardness, these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369545338941,"sku":"9780393867893","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780393867893_p0.jpg?v=1771588522","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780393867893","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}