{"product_id":"water-quality-9780228022978","title":"Water Quality","description":"\u003cp\u003eI find my bearings by clouds of moon jellies \/ afloat beneath my anchored boat, \/ pulsing the sea's bright night, \/ their milky way, unfurling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these lush and vivid poems water gloves a swimmer's body, is \"satin, yes, viscous. Albumen, vernix, newborn slick.\" It \"rinses gai lan - bright green in a silver bowl\" in Hong Kong or hibernates in the Pacific Northwest \"under a silky pelt \/ of rain. People-less. Days, months of this \/ hiss, softness breaking cliffs.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns of stewardship, or as the sea in which to sail and drift, or as a gene pool simmering through a family's veins, water is the main character here. It can be turbid, the amniotic colour of spittle, or, in a time of drought, \"brilliant beads.\" As \"a stream flushed over granite,\" water seems to want \"so little it shares another's colour,\" yet here, it gets our full and necessary attention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich with vibrant language and intensity, these poems sizzle in lyric form, monologues, elegy, and haibun. \u003ci\u003eWater Quality\u003c\/i\u003e calls on us to consider that our very survival is at stake unless we make a vow to this vital element to cherish it as we would a partner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Woodman Kerkham\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 09\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh MacLennan Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228022978","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46761305604233,"sku":"9780228022978","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7aa74f1a-0fbc-4408-a604-84e1369aa813.jpg?v=1779164914","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/water-quality-9780228022978","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}