{"product_id":"exit-opera-kim-addonizio-9781324130659","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”:The staging is difficult.   Exploding stars are involved, high-redshift galaxies, interior chambers,a little country blues, a little jazz guitar, a jam jar containinga tiny ocean \u0026amp; a tinier rowboat rocking gently in the swellsthat I am steering toward you in the dark.","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51945946710304,"sku":"9781324130659","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/exit-opera-kim-addonizio-9781324130659","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}