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{"id":6841440239675,"title":"The Caiplie Caves special hardcover ed","handle":"the-caiplie-caves-special-hardcover-ed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit’s solitude. His decision would have been informed by the realities of war, religious colonization, and ideas of progress, power, and corruption, and complicated by personal interest, grief, confusion, and a faith (religious and secular) under extreme duress. His choice between life as an “active” or a “contemplative” was one between public and private action. Along with the question of what constitutes action, it remains a choice central to political and private life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie’s fifth book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, attends to transition in times of crisis. Around passages informed by Ethernan’s story are poems that orbit the geographical location of the caves but that range through the ages, addressing violence, power, work, economies, self-delusion, and belief. Indecision and necessity are inseparable companions. 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The Caiplie Caves special hardcover ed
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection The Caiplie Caves is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6899077808187,"title":"The Elements special hardcover edition","handle":"the-elements-special-hardcover-edition","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. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erin Moure's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/em\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":"2022-06-27T18:25:25-04:00","created_at":"2022-06-27T17:27:31-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"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":40499152715835,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003739","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Elements special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003739","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dark Blue Cover. Text: Er’n Moure. The Elements. (Nam:loz).","id":23431558594619,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":600,"width":450,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535","width":450}],"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. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erin Moure's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/em\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 special hardcover edition
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{"id":6815470977083,"title":"The Exiles' Gallery","handle":"the-exiles-gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. 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The Exiles' Gallery
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Adam Dickinson's poetry collection The Polymers is limited to 50 copies.
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The Quiet
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Anne-Marie Turza's poetry collection The Quiet is limited to 50 copies.
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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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The Waking Comes Late special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Steven Heighton's poetry collection The Waking Comes Late is limited to 50 copies.
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition
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Xiphoid Process special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Kevin Connolly's poetry collection Xiphoid Process is limited to 50 copies.
