{"product_id":"inventing-love-a-sonnet-sequence-paperback","title":"Inventing Love: A Sonnet Sequence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Salvidio\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey met when both were young and she already married, with waist-long, gold-red hair that called instantly to mind Sappho's \"girl with hair like a falling flame.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow, nearly half a century later, award-winning poet Frank Salvidio has gathered together the sonnets addressed to her, some previously published in journals and anthologies, and fashioned them into a sonnet sequence which chronicles their enigmatic, mutual attraction, which dates from that first meeting. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether it is, as she suggests, a love invented to provide a poet with a theme, or the fatal attraction which his poetry expresses, these sonnets trace its history from the point of view of someone who still does not know if it is real or illusory; and their arrangement recreates this quixotic relationship in all its ambiguity, from the closing couplet of the title sonnet, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"Yet if your hard analysis is true\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat fabled love sustains me, still it's you,\" \u003c\/p\u003e to the conclusion of the last, which defines it as \u003cp\u003e \"....................a play within\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA play of ifs and buts, of would and should, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA world not realized, not understood.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47415774019833,"sku":"9781450274708","price":11.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/teZpMmctjD9781450274708.webp?v=1770958784","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/inventing-love-a-sonnet-sequence-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}