{"product_id":"a-page-from-the-wonders-of-life-on-earth-9781926829708","title":"A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a book with a coherent vision of nature—constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past—through zoos, apiaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the \u003ci\u003eTime-Life\u003c\/i\u003e one named in the title. Informed by the author's grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of honest, unsentimental elegy. The book is also a model of what might be called investigative poetry, taking the poet's combination of perceptual acuity, craft, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of, monuments to, museums for the lost natural world) where \"arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades,\" and where questions of what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art are tangibly in the air. This is Bolster's best work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Bolster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278408691963,"sku":"9781926829708","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781926829708.jpg?v=1772488058","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/a-page-from-the-wonders-of-life-on-earth-9781926829708","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}