{"product_id":"9781639820467-toward-poems","title":"Toward Poems","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poet’s eye and imagination capture lyrical, sonic, imagistic details of these places. So, too, their embedded history: the Famine, the days of the whaling industry, the speaker’s paternal genealogy, are all woven in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut beyond those stories and images, the heart of this collection is the poet’s missing lover—a presence haunting both landscape and memory. By means of crafting language and pushing its possibilities, the speaker searches for the most elemental in whatever place—physical or emotional—she finds herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the literature of travel and especially pilgrimage shows, being on the move can become a journey to one’s own interior. Here are poems of such witness, poems of reflection on how others on perpetual journeys have stayed the course. Here are poems about how this poet has come to places, as she says in her poem “In This Habitable Desert,” she \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ecould not even imagine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings the reader along with her to these places.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Wipf \u0026 Stock Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34117652021384,"sku":"9781639820467","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/products\/toward-poems-9781725252790-671822.jpg?v=1690126386","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781639820467-toward-poems","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}