{"product_id":"lurch","title":"Lurch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don McKay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Lurch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2021-08-03\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \"[McKay's] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins.\" --New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award, Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld joke: \"What's the difference between a lurch and a dance step?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't know.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I didn't think so. Let's sit down.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon rises from the ocean and you lurch with astonishment that we live on a rocky sphere whirling in space. Or the bird in your hand-a pipit or a storm petrel-conveys the exquisite frailty of existence. And there's the complex of lurches as we contemplate our complicity in the sixth mass extinction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout Lurch, language dances its ardent incompetence as a translator of \"the profane wonders of the wilderness,\" whether manifest as Balsam Fir, Catbirds, the extinct Eskimo Curlew, or the ever-present Cosmic Microwave Background.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the difference between a love song and an elegy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live between eroding raindrops\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand accelerating clocks. The piano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elifts its lid to show its wire-and-hammer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eheart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780771057854\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.24 Inches, Length: 5.49 Inches, Weight: 0.00220462262 Pounds, Width: 0.3 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don McKay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863306961203,"sku":"9780771057854","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/14163563482462.jpg?v=1754193732","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/lurch","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}