{"product_id":"to-the-moon-an-anthology-of-lunar-poems","title":"To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditing Answering Back  in which living poets replied to poems from the past  I was astonished to see how many of the poems  old and new  referred to the moon. I then started to keep a record of such references  and from my notebook  I see that in one morning alone I came across no fewer than nine poems  from the likes of Coleridge  Graves  Rosetti and Rowe and it was this selection that initially inspired To the Moon. Theres something incredibly moving  and electrifying  to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes  written around 500 BC  and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past  and the Moon itself: I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed  I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays down its load. In collecting together poems such as these poems that span continents and centuries To the Moon shows what it is to be human; to love  to lose  to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet  and the pleasures they offer are like space itself infinite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952204378165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0330461311","price":90.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780330461313.jpg?v=1770154107","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-the-moon-an-anthology-of-lunar-poems","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}