{"product_id":"the-solace-of-artemis-9781915629142","title":"The Solace of Artemis","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatterns and patterning - cellular, celestial, social, political and personal - spin and weave through Paula Meehan's new collection of poems. From the mythic to the mundane, her attention is given over to the examination of interconnected lives - her own, the lives of her family, the human ecology of her native Dublin - and the unfolding of pattern-cycles in the non- human world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeehan's familiar impulse towards blessing and empathy is shadowed in these poems with a clear-sighted understanding that the human perspective is neither privileged nor superior, an awareness that much if not most of existence is indifferent to our all-too-human dramas. Nevertheless, explorations of family, of her own mortality, of the lives of long-dead tenement dwellers, shift and shine in a web of stories that speak to a stubborn human endurance that is sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic - and occasionally transcendent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as new poems, this collection integrates \u003cem\u003eMuseum \u003c\/em\u003e(2019), a sequence commissioned for the Dublin Tenement Museum, and \u003cem\u003eFor the Hungry Ghosts \u003c\/em\u003e(2022), a poem cycle responding to the Hades episode of Joyce's \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dedalus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50563854205202,"sku":"9781915629142","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d25a091-dc35-490b-90c3-1d0f390e7349.jpg?v=1731871248","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-solace-of-artemis-9781915629142","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}