{"product_id":"strange-paradise-portrait-of-a-marriage-paperback","title":"Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage - 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\u003eGrace Schulman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e New \u0026amp; Noteworthy Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable to miss any of it.\"--Wallace Shawn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY's Baruch College, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How did Schulman maintain the independence, solitude, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? \"In my experience, the phrase 'happy marriage' is a term of opposites, like 'friendly fire' or 'famous poet.' My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . \" \u003ci\u003eStrange Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e looks at this, Schulman's remarkable career, her friendships with great writers, her work as an historic impresario at the Y, her religious and philosophical leanings, and her grand love affair with New York--all in her magical prose.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Schulman is an acclaimed poet, most recently recipient of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, the highest award of the Poetry Society of America. Among her other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, New York University's Distinguished Alumni Award, a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and four Pushcart Prizes. Schulman is the author of seven collections of poems, including \u003ci\u003eWithout a Claim\u003c\/i\u003e, her most recent, and \u003ci\u003eDays of Wonder: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of the Year. Her prose essays are collected in \u003ci\u003eFirst Loves and Other Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of Marianne Moore\u003c\/i\u003e. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, and former poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48128875397368,"sku":"9781885983527","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/UHdKQ1FkNUhuNmFFUVNKSEJDQmZQdz09.webp?v=1774281031","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/strange-paradise-portrait-of-a-marriage-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}