{"product_id":"dreamlife-of-a-philanthropist-9780268033224","title":"Dreamlife of a Philanthropist","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janet Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a salve in one hand and a burcher's knife in the other, Janet Kaplan offers her masterful third collection, \u003ci\u003eDreamlife of a Philanthropist\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2011 Ernest Sandeen prize in Poetry. The prose poems and sonnets in \u003ci\u003eDreamlife\u003c\/i\u003e are packed with postmodern language-leaping, modern irony and absurdity, and a poet's ageless ear for the pleasures of the lyric and formal experimentation. These are poems that can never quite abandon the hope that life--and language--are worthy pursuits; but they never offer up easy assurances about the benefits of humanity to anyone or anything. Get ready for dogs that wail and overtake the scene; an invitation to make love on a mattress of ants; and the philanthropist of the title, who dreams that people are tuned into fish. It's \"good luck and bad in random but equal measure,\" Kaplan writes in \"Life and Times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47602869207191,"sku":"9780268033224","price":1342.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780268033224.webp?v=1775013329","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dreamlife-of-a-philanthropist-9780268033224","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}