{"product_id":"so-long-paperback","title":"So Long - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJen Levitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Anticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt's \u003ci\u003eSo Long\u003c\/i\u003e fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and a permeating love. \"Soon,\" she says, \"we'll have to find another way to meet, as moonlight \/ makes the river glow.\" In the contrails of bittersweet loss, Levitt's speaker observes all that surrounds her, and the self, too, as a phenomenon in loneliness. In the suburbs, she notes high- school athletes circling \"in their sweat-resistant fabrics,\" \"so natural in their tank tops, those dutiful kids trying to beat time\"; upstate, she finds herself in temple where Broadway music has replaced prayer and discovers \"no promises, \/ but, like hearing a rustle in deep woods \u0026amp; turning to locate its source, the chance for something rare.\" It is this humanistic faith that inverts the title's idiomatic goodbye into a statement of permanence, the truth of our enduring, improbable lives: look at this, she seems to command herself, \"\u0026amp; look at how lucky I've been, for so long.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jen Levitt is the author of The Off-Season (Four Way Books, 2016). Her poems have appeared in\u003ci\u003e The Adroit Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and teaches high school students. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702029783103,"sku":"9781954245501","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/440b15f4c012a3ca975e00191bf49b9c.webp?v=1765022882","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/so-long-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}