{"product_id":"sadness-and-happiness","title":"Sadness And Happiness","description":"From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:  CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random  Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws  Of biography, chance, physics--  The unseasonable soul holds forth,  Eager for form as a renowned  Pedant, the emperor's man of worth,  Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one's life is one's enemy.  As the small children learn, what happens  Takes over, and what you were goes away.  They learn it in sardonic soft  Comments of the weather, when it sharpens  The hard surfaces of daylight: light  Winds, vague in direction, like blades Lavishing their brilliant strokes  All over a wrecked house,  The nude wallpaper and the brute  Intelligence of the torn pipes.  Therefore when you marry or build  Pray to be untrue to the plain  Dominance of your own weather, how it keeps Going even in the woods when not  A soul is there, and how it implies  Always that separate, cold  Splendidness, uncouth and unkind--  On chilly, unclouded mornings,  Torrential sunlight and moist air,  Leafage and solid bark breathing the mist.","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241637859672,"sku":"9780691013220","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780691013220.jpg?v=1765331115","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sadness-and-happiness","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}