{"product_id":"something-for-the-dark-9781779400888","title":"Something for the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomething for the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e centres Indigenous knowledge to probe the limits of what we know, confront the unknown, and reckon with our place in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Randy Lundy's newest collection of poetry--the final in a trilogy that began with \u003ci\u003eBlackbird Song\u003c\/i\u003e and continued with \u003ci\u003eField Notes for the Self\u003c\/i\u003e--turns the poem to our relationships with the land, animals, and people, showing how our failures to see and live by the personhood of all other beings in the world, human and non-, leads inevitably to heartbreak. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Lundy's poems accumulate like snow on cedar, his recounting of experiences that transcend language invites the reader to bend their understanding and notice what was once unseen--how a red-winged blackbird clings to a swaying reed, how mist rises after rainfall, how dogs keen and howl, how fingers taste bitter after lighting sage, how hunger smarts, how liquor burns, and how the pain survivors carry is not merely their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning poet \u003cb\u003eRandy Lundy\u003c\/b\u003e is a Cree, Irish, and Norwegian member of the Barren Lands First Nation, Brochet, Manitoba. Born in Thompson, Manitoba, he lived most of his life in Saskatchewan before recently taking a teaching position at University of Toronto, Scarborough.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Regina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720821178642,"sku":"9781779400888","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f973c34-8da5-4b92-8fba-820ece7eb1f3.jpg?v=1762937522","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/something-for-the-dark-9781779400888","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}