{"product_id":"9781960327215","title":"When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like - Benjamin S. Grossberg","description":"From distinguished poet Benjamin S. Grossberg comes a bracing exploration of how the fear of death softens into acceptance.�Benjamin S. Grossberg's When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like is about how we come to understand death-sometimes in terror, sometimes in loss, and perhaps, in the sober assessments of middle age, with calm acceptance, when what may have loomed as a nightmare can come to seem unremarkable, familiar, even a \"private wonder.\" The poems span the trauma of coming out as a gay man at the height of the US AIDS epidemic to the advent of PrEP-a class of HIV-prevention drugs-twenty-five years later. The poems wrestle with the growing awareness that, though one bugbear may press less close, death still waits, patient and inevitable. A series of elegies for the poet's mother, who returns as a wry, irreverent ghost \"swirling\/ice cubes in a tumbler of vodka,\" lies at the heart of this ranging, cinematic collection.","brand":"Benjamin S. Grossberg","offers":[{"title":"96 pages \/ 06\/10\/2026 \/ Literature: history \u0026 criticism","offer_id":57443826827639,"sku":"9781960327215","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781960327215","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}