{"product_id":"exit-opera","title":"Exit Opera","description":"Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject–jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers–these poems make for a compelling mix of humour and pain, difficulty and solace. In a nod to Keats, one of the many fellow travellers in these poems, Addonizio invites us to “[inscribe] a few verses on whatever water \/ you can find” and assures readers that they are not alone in navigating the challenges and changes of mortal life. As she writes in “My Opera”:\n\n\nThe staging is difficult.\n\nExploding stars are involved, high-redshift galaxies, interior chambers,\n\na little country blues, a little jazz guitar, a jam jar containing\n\na tiny ocean \u0026amp; a tinier rowboat rocking gently in the swells\n\nthat I am steering toward you in the dark.","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56259526132056,"sku":"9781324130659","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781324130659.jpg?v=1779865255","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/exit-opera","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}