{"product_id":"the-quiet-in-me-poems-9781550179811","title":"The Quiet in Me: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies--the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river--ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, the poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet in Me\u003c\/em\u003e are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is \"a museum for what's gone\" and a heart is \"the sound of the wind seething,\" there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: \"the song of the falling water and wild birds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering--to come back to yourself \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playing in paradoxes--\"empty marrow bones with their strings of red ants\"--these poems cultivate dualisms: intimacy and realism, vulnerability and the roughness of youth, a scar that is a father's teaching, a blade that is a sigh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom one of Canada's most lyric writers comes a book steeped in the wisdom of the natural world. Told by an eye that never ceases to observe and a heart that is willing to make itself known--to invite others into its warmth and wilderness--this collection transposes leaf to leaf, stone to stone, reminding us that water will always return to water and so will we.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harbour Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452745224466,"sku":"9781550179811","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_118af52e-7b05-41c6-89af-3e1aba94bc79.jpg?v=1729820909","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-quiet-in-me-poems-9781550179811","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}