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{"id":6817706278971,"title":"The Unmemntioable","handle":"the-unmemntioable","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable \u003c\/em\u003ejoins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:53-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:27:39-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-02-15"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220063858747,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890046","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Unmemntioable - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":172,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890046","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558823995,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608"},"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable \u003c\/em\u003ejoins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A book-length poem that delves into the fraught history of war, loss, and emigration from Western Ukraine.
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{"id":6816114638907,"title":"The Quiet","handle":"the-quiet-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T14:25:36-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:52:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Turza Anne-Marie","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2014-04-19"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213535359035,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894433","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Quiet - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770894433","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22834359435323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Quiet
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.
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{"id":6815471370299,"title":"The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out","handle":"the-road-in-is-not-the-same-road-out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently attuned to the demotic and the enigmatic, she returns our language to us as if new again, in a style somehow both nomadic and steady, both unpredictable and meticulously crafted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, witty, tough-minded, and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e offers Solie's most exciting and captivating work to date, in poems of natural contemplation and uncertainty ranging under the aegis of lyric grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:39:22-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Solie Karen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-02"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209999265851,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898202","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898202","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d9e25df7-ad95-420f-847f-9b44d9c835b2.jpg?v=1719712918"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d9e25df7-ad95-420f-847f-9b44d9c835b2.jpg?v=1719712918","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24668250275899,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3321,"width":2657,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d9e25df7-ad95-420f-847f-9b44d9c835b2.jpg?v=1719712918"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3321,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d9e25df7-ad95-420f-847f-9b44d9c835b2.jpg?v=1719712918","width":2657}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently attuned to the demotic and the enigmatic, she returns our language to us as if new again, in a style somehow both nomadic and steady, both unpredictable and meticulously crafted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, witty, tough-minded, and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e offers Solie's most exciting and captivating work to date, in poems of natural contemplation and uncertainty ranging under the aegis of lyric grace.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887842580","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9780887847400","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487006181","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKAREN SOLIE\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–\u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e–have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKAREN SOLIE\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–\u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e–have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Solie, Karen (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently attuned to the demotic and the enigmatic, she returns our language to us as if new again, in a style somehow both nomadic and steady, both unpredictable and meticulously crafted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, witty, tough-minded, and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e offers Solie's most exciting and captivating work to date, in poems of natural contemplation and uncertainty ranging under the aegis of lyric grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770898202","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898202\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"104","OtherText_Review_0":"…remarkable…[t]here are glimmers of hope in these poems…","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"Unease is arguably the dominant mood of our cultural moment — and Karen Solie taps into it brilliantly in her fourth collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, a follow-up to her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning Pigeon.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Barb Carey","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Solie at her best","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Emma Healey","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"…she might be the most technically sound sentence engineer in the country, prose authors included.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Jacob McArthur Mooney","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2015-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.
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Little Dogs
Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.
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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Michael Crummey's poetry collection Under the Keel is limited to 50 copies.
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The 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Procession
At once descendants and future ancestors, Procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations.
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{"id":7349185216571,"title":"The Elements","handle":"the-elements","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:04:36-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T09:58:33-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42025479176251,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003722","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Elements - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003722","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25137104126011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Elements
Award winning poet and translator Erín Moure's collection is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction.
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Dunk Tank
Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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{"id":7348971274299,"title":"Sequence","handle":"sequence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-20T17:11:12-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-20T17:08:31-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42024747302971,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898714","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sequence - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":231,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898714","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25135685664827,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Sequence
A finely tuned collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.
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The Exiles' Gallery
The Exiles’ Gallery is a book of celebration, filled with restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension.
