{"product_id":"love-and-other-poems","title":"Love and Other Poems","description":"Review\n\nIf hope were an object, it would be Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems ― NPR\n\nLove and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy ― New York Times\n\nIt's the kind of surprise that makes you smile and nod, like catching a glimpse of the full moon in the middle of the day ― BOMB Magazine\n\nFull of fierce astonishment ― O, The Oprah Magazine\n\nIn this affecting collection, his most fully achieved thus far, Dimitrov provides the reader with a needed celebration of\npleasures ― Publishers Weekly, starred review\n\n'A highly pleasurable, heavily Frank O'Hara-influenced collection in love with moments and New York City and the aesthetics of cyclical ephemerality, full of exuberance and wistfulness, longing and joy' ― New York Times\n\n\nProduct Description\n\n'It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush... There have been moments when, for me, its effervescence has failed to rhyme with the despondency of these days. But far more often, Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy' New York Times\n\nLove and Other Poems is full of praise for the world we live in.\n\nTaking time as an overarching structure - specifically, the twelve months of the year - Alex Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is 'our best invention'. Dimitrov never resists joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.\n\nBook Description\n\nIn its unabashed celebration of love and the hungry embrace of life, Love and Other Poems is the perfect tonic for our fraught times: it will make you feel less alone.\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nSo this is love. When it slows\nthe rain touches everyone on their way home.\nWhatever was promised of pleasure\ncosts the body more than it has.\nPerhaps they were right putting love into books...\nto look at the sky without asking a question,\nto look at the sea and know you won't drown today.\nDespite all our work, even the worst of life\nhas a place in memory. And the fixed hours\nbetween two and five before evening\nare the aimless future with someone\nwho cannot stay new.\n\nLove and Other Poems is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure - specifically, the twelve months of the year - Alex Dimitrov elevates the everyday and speaks directly to the reader. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is 'our best invention'. Dimitrov doesn't resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.\n\n'[Love and Other Poems] practically embodies the phrase \"breath of fresh air\" . . . It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush . . . Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy' The New York Times\n\n'Full of fierce astonishment' O, The Oprah Magazine\n\n'If hope were an object, it would be poet Alex Dimitrov's new book Love and Other Poems' NPR\n\nAbout the Author\n\nAlex Dimitrov is the author of Together and by Ourselves, Begging for It, and the online chapbook American Boys. With Dorothea Lasky, he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. He lives in New York City.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40308113604693,"sku":"9781472157188N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/642d53db-f93c-4cd5-a9a1-9160e56e2efd.jpg?v=1663225313","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/love-and-other-poems","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}