{"product_id":"rocket-and-lightship-essays-on-literature-and-ideas-9780393243468","title":"Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays from a great poet-critic-intellectual (Daily Beast). Adam Kirsch has been described as \"elegant and astutea critic of the very first order\" (Michiko Kakutani  New York Times). In these brilliant  wide-ranging essays  published over the last eight years in the New Republic  The New Yorker  and elsewhere  Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning  ethics  and politics  and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present  from intellectuals Susan Sontag  Hannah Arendt  and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E. M. Forster  David Foster Wallace  and Zadie Smith. Kirsch quotes G. M. Hopkins: \"Nor rescue  only rocket and lightship  shone.\" So shines literature  in these unflinchingly bold and provocative essaysas an illuminating  regenerative  and immortalizing force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960473215029,"sku":"ByrdShop_039324346X","price":39.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393243468.jpg?v=1788288306","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rocket-and-lightship-essays-on-literature-and-ideas-9780393243468","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}