{"product_id":"what-we-know-so-far-is-9781998408269","title":"What We Know So Far Is ...","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Irish word for shadow, \"scáth,\" is also our word for shelter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a powerful long poem that captures the disquiet of our age with cinematic language and imagery, Conor Mc Donnell's \u003cem\u003eWhat We Know So Far Is ...\u003c\/em\u003e harkens back to the previous century in its daring. Drawing from his Irish heritage, his experience as a pediatrician and many other sources, Mc Donnell has created a work that echoes the scope of T.S. Eliot's \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e and Hart Crane's \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e. Both ecstatic and challenging, the lines of the poem are filled with allusions and references, with biology shading into history into cultures both ancient and contemporary, where words are predators and \"memes disseminate cultural-genes.\" Through it all runs Mc Donnell's fascination with language, ever shifting, beguiling, mutating, virus-like. In these questioning, DNA-like lines, Mc Donnell shows us how to unmake and remake our understanding of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMC Donnell, Conor:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDr. Conor Mc Donnell is a poet and physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He is the author of two collections of poems (most recently, \u003cem\u003eThis Insistent List\u003c\/em\u003e) and three chapbooks. His poetry has appeared in various Canadian and international publications as well as noted medical journals such as \u003cem\u003eJAMA\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCMAJ\u003c\/em\u003e. He is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and editor in chief of \u003cem\u003eCase Repertory\u003c\/em\u003e, a Narrative-Based Medicine Lab publication that seeks to engage and promote the voice of the patient in collaboration with their health-carers. He is a frequently invited international lecturer on pediatric perioperative care, error prevention and opioid stewardship, and he is current vice-president of the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society. Conor works weekends at Sellers \u0026amp; Newel Second-Hand Books in Little Italy, Toronto, where they have words for people like him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buckrider Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635432522002,"sku":"9781998408269","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9da964ca-1800-4c04-a2e8-9fba5f138c1c.jpg?v=1759235548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-we-know-so-far-is-9781998408269","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}