{"product_id":"the-swailing-9780228016755","title":"The Swailing","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere the long edge \/ of town Low \/ winter fog \/ ... My breath \/ my offering We are \/ our bodies burning \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick Errington's first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness. In these poems human voices whisper through the natural world - a hand turns on a lamp to extinguish the stars; stones outline a sleeping form; a black eye is a storm cloud. Errington stokes vivid images, formal grace, and subtle humour into the flickers of life that hold fast against unforgiving terrain. Here language functions like a controlled burn, one that could at any moment preserve, perfect, or reduce to ash. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrgent, resonant to the bone, \u003ci\u003ethe swailing\u003c\/i\u003e burns to the ember-edge of grief, memory, and control to find the wildness, wilderness, and wonder that remain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Errington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh MacLennan Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.32h x 4.96w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228016755","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46761305342089,"sku":"9780228016755","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_05fc0f12-0c9d-43c3-ac1a-7cb49706715a.jpg?v=1779164904","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-swailing-9780228016755","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}