{"title":"Kim Addonizio","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim Addonizio's works offer a vivid exploration of human emotion, weaving together the rawness of love, loss, and desire with poetic finesse. Readers can expect a rich blend of contemporary poetry and prose that captures the complexities of relationships and the creative spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a background rooted in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Addonizio’s writing resonates deeply, inviting reflection and emotional connection. Whether through intimate verse or compelling narrative, her books illuminate the beauty and turmoil of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"what-is-this-thing-called-love-by-kim-addonizio-9780393327090","title":"What Is This Thing Called Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eA chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464773681388,"sku":"9780393327090","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393327090-what-is-this-thing-called-love.jpg?v=1775054333"},{"product_id":"exit-opera-by-kim-addonizio-9781324078937","title":"Exit Opera","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, \u003cem\u003eExit Opera\u003c\/em\u003e explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject—jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers—these poems make for a compelling mix of humour and pain, difficulty and solace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a nod to Keats, one of the many fellow travellers in these poems, Addonizio invites us to \"\u003cem\u003einscribe a few verses on whatever water you can find\u003c\/em\u003e\" and assures readers that they are not alone in navigating the challenges and changes of mortal life. As she writes in \"\u003cem\u003eMy Opera\u003c\/em\u003e\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe staging is difficult. 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She persuaded fifty artists - Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger and Suzanne Valadon among them - to immortalize her in paintings and sculptures, which would appear as an important plot device in a forthcoming film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnveiled as an exhibition in New York, the artworks travelled to Chicago, London, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Paris. But in 1931, as legend eventually had it, she and her husband Max Abramowicz vanished without a trace, and so did the art. The film was never made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman With Fifty Faces\u003c\/em\u003e is about uncovering as much of the truth about Maria Lani as possible. The images that cascade through the book are stunningly beautiful, deeply compassionate, and farcically grotesque, capturing the essence of Lani's life. 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