{"product_id":"against-sunset-hardcover-by-stanley-plumly","title":"Against Sunset Hardcover by Stanley Plumly","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eWW Norton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2016-11-08)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e96\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780393253948\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e254.02\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.84 x 14.48 x 1.27\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom “Against Sunset”\u003cbr\u003e\nThe horizon, halfway disappeared between above and below—\u003cbr\u003e\nnight falls too or does it also rise out of the death-glitter of water?\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd if night is the long straight path of the full moon pouring down\u003cbr\u003e\non the face of the deep, what makes us wish we could walk there,\u003cbr\u003e\nlike a flat skipped stone?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Plumly\u003c\/b\u003e (1939–2019) was the author of numerous collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eIn the Outer Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and \u003ci\u003eOut-of-the-Body Travel\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include \u003ci\u003eGiraffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eSummer Celestial\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eBoy on the Step\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eNow That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 1970–2000 (2000), \u003ci\u003eAgainst Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and the posthumous \u003ci\u003eMiddle Distance\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). His collection \u003ci\u003eOld Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He authored four works of prose: \u003ci\u003ePosthumous Keats: A Personal Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), which was named runner-up for the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), which received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; \u003ci\u003eElegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eArgument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well as Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46553086492833,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780393253948","price":33.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780393253948.jpg?v=1781725939","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/against-sunset-hardcover-by-stanley-plumly","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}