{"product_id":"living-is-what-i-wanted-last-poems","title":"Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Ignatow was, in Gerald Stern's words, the \"gatekeeper between life and death.\" Nowhere is that more apparent than in \u003cem\u003eLiving Is What I Wanted: Last Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, the twentieth and final collection by one of the most prolific and compassionate writers of this century. Vibrant with what Harvey Shapiro called \"the life of struggle,\" the poems address the imminence of death honestly and boldly, acknowledging its necessity and its mystery. Ignatow, as gatekeeper, examines the divided between life and death in some of the most moving and compromising poems he ever wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Someone of the past \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Someone of the past is dying in front of me,\u003cbr\u003e her face immobile. \u003cbr\u003e She sees herself in me, dying too.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What we know of each other is dying with us,\u003cbr\u003e no one else will ever know\u003cbr\u003e and still we can't convey\u003cbr\u003e to one another the past events\u003cbr\u003e to live them over with a change\u003cbr\u003e in sight of our eternity. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Did I mean you harm\u003cbr\u003e when we lived together?\u003cbr\u003e Did you mean me to be a nightmare\u003cbr\u003e in your life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 1999 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions:\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-880238-77-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $21.95\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: September 1999\u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-78-0\u003cbr\u003e Price: $12.50\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: September 1999\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802208325,"sku":"1880238780","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418632133,"sku":"1-880238-77-2","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/LIVING_IS_WHAT_I.jpg?v=1527683291","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/living-is-what-i-wanted-last-poems","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}