{"product_id":"messy-tenderness-paperback","title":"Messy Tenderness - 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\u003eLovitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What luck-a new bounty of poems by Robert Lovitt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lovitt's love of quotidian detail, sensitivity to relational energy, and ear for the rhythms of the natural world echo through \u003cem\u003emessy tenderness\u003c\/em\u003e alongside a stark eye on mortality. With a careful 108 titles, we're invited to center ourselves one poem at a time, one word after another, in lines spun from decades of memories and emotion. Lovitt's work is as human as ever: we're here for break-ups, workdays, yardwork, convalescence, new love, mattress shopping-even a food handler's permit class. Most striking for this middle-aged reader were the multiple moments of caring for or being with a person preparing to leave their earthly body. Amid the mirth and yes, the mess, there \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e great tenderness: we find resilience and affirmation in his expressions of witness (for life and its bookend; for his loved ones, and for us). Lovitt gathers all this rich pathos around the tellings of departure to cast them in a brilliant light of aliveness only he could conjure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With this collection in hand, you might feel a little more ready to sit with your beloveds at sunset.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Bailey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter \u0026amp; Editor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecember 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48395826331897,"sku":"9780975388167","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/2aiomJtV3I9780975388167.webp?v=1778619143","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/messy-tenderness-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}