{"product_id":"the-safety-of-edges-9780578438351","title":"The Safety of Edges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e ponders liminal times and spaces, tracing the borders between now and then, here and there, childhood and the grown poet. The edge of anything is both a limit and a possibility, an encounter either safe or risky. Pruiksma's poems seek what it is one awakens to in the half light between darkness and dawn, an emptiness that is not empty, a \"saying in the silence,\" \"a song we can't see,\" or whatever in movement might remain still. Pondering a world waiting to be whole, they return repeatedly to home. Theirs is a quiet voice of the hints that the past, like the things that inhabit it, emanates, of evanescences, of questioning and questing, of the mystery of ordinary moments: playing cards, drawing, opening a door, building sheds, seeing neighbors. Not only doors or walls, not only voices, all things leave traces.  There is nothing \"to dull the emptying darkness beyond even the darkness I could see,\" Pruiksma writes in a poem that appears early in his book.  Yet he finds, near the end of it, \"a darkness not dark, an emptiness not empty.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of a compassionate discreteness, a generous simplicity, in which the hours of life are not lost but found, sometimes, \"all of it here in our hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Weltner, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Light of the Sun Become Sea \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eUnbecoming Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marrowstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578438351","brand":"Marrowstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713537413257,"sku":"9780578438351","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_3f5bc38b-4174-4eeb-bd68-40f2286dacdb.jpg?v=1719614784","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-safety-of-edges-9780578438351","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}