{"product_id":"breath-taking-9781771669863","title":"Breath Taking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching and tender recollection of illness, death, and grief, sensitively exploring the dynamic between the burden of care and the burden of dying. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Smart's latest poetry collection offers a striking meditation on the death of her partner of nearly forty years. Structured in five distinct parts, this deeply moving book unfolds like a tragedy--each section like an act in a play, the individual poems key scenes in a shared life coming to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe language in \u003ci\u003eBreath Taking\u003c\/i\u003e is direct and exacting, with colloquial phrases that animate and complicate the emotional pressure of the work itself. Familiar references are scattered throughout--Gould Lake, Road 38--not as a device, but as indications of the everyday world that love, pain, and death inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate and exhaustive, this generous document doesn't lean on a belief in God or the afterlife, nor does nature's continuity offer an uncomplicated source of comfort. Instead, what is revealed is the unvarnished reality of love and loss--the arduous responsibilities, the fragile attempts at recovery, the wishful thinking that what is gone will one day return. \u003ci\u003eBreath Taking\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound, vital reflection on the end of a life, and on those who go on living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Smart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 5.31w x 0.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771669863","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48531932315785,"sku":"9781771669863","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b5d531cb-f2fd-4f94-a486-fcf331300c8b.jpg?v=1791326152","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/breath-taking-9781771669863","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}