{"product_id":"immortality-9780299303341","title":"Immortality","description":"\"Drop the personal,\" Alan Feldman's best friend advises. But what else does he have? Feldman takes his title from Zhivago's interpretations of the afterlife: \"Your soul, your immortality, your life in others.\"\u003cbr\u003e In a collection where the dead do speak, Feldman's poems in his first segment, \"Self-Portraits,\" are more likely to be about others than about himself. The segment \"Partners\" reflects on marriage and divorce, the latter an \"uncontested victor over marriage, \/ the way the flood is champion over the flood plain.\" In the section \"Offshore\" Feldman writes about travel to Uruguay, his impractical love of sailing, and his wonder at Walter Cronkite's obtuseness about Vietnam. In his final segment, \"What Now?,\" he asks about meaning itself. Babysitting his tiny granddaughter, he thinks of sailing-hours of boredom punctuated by moments of terror-and wonders if even this suggests something world-encompassing he's \"still hoping to find a name for. \/ If it isn't joy.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner of the Mass Book Award for Poetry, Massachusetts Center for the Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Feldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299303341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan Feldman is a professor emeritus of English at Framingham State University and previously taught creative writing at Harvard University. He is the author of many collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eA Sail to Great Island\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, \u003ci\u003e Frank O'Hara\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Lucy Mastermind\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39952735666291,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8dfd7bbd-6ef1-47d6-8ab0-4e01484b688f.jpg?v=1648564621","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/immortality-9780299303341","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}