{"product_id":"9780228029311","title":"Openbound : Poems of Relation - Jeffery Donaldson","description":"The trouble with honesty, it has no \/ final answers, leaves you in the cranny \/ where nothing left unknown meets finding out. The puzzles of poetry and marriage are these: How to hold on to what you also release? How to protect love when other loves are put between? In this collection of sixty-nine \"fifteeners\" - sonnet-like constellations of five tercets - Jeffery Donaldson explores the outcomes of both questions over the course of a life in verse and a loving thirty-one-year open marriage. The poems orbit around two readings that Donaldson and his wife chose for their wedding: a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke about two people protecting one another's solitude; and a scene from Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry's The Little Prince in which the prince is told, \"You are responsible for your rose.\"As openbound turns toward open marriage itself - its risks, its revelations, its misunderstandings, its wounds under cultural scrutiny - the work reveals itself foremost as a book of love poems, continuing Donaldson's long devotion to a metaphoric both\/and poetics capacious enough to hold loving and freedom in the same breath.","brand":"Jeffery Donaldson","offers":[{"title":"88 pages \/ 27\/10\/2026 \/ Poetry","offer_id":57496523571575,"sku":"9780228029311","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780228029311.jpg?v=1790586123","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780228029311","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}