{"product_id":"concrete-and-wild-carrot-9781894078245","title":"Concrete and Wild Carrot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2003 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Margaret Avison’s new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer slightest subjects—beloved Toronto parks with their population of oaks, firs, squirrels, dogs, kids, even ants, and the minutest sighs of her contemporary urban soundscape—all have their being within an immense composition that calls and hauls us to a largeness, a category-breaking “always unthinkable” beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Words have their life too, won’t\/ compact into a theorem,” Avison says, and this is certainly true of hers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"To myself everywhere: \u003cbr\u003eCry out, “Break!” Break \u003cbr\u003eall our securities, and break out! \u003cbr\u003eExplore only the ranges \u003cbr\u003ebeyond our mastering. Take on \u003cbr\u003ethe inexorable demands made by \u003cbr\u003ea norm of unpremeditated excellence!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from “Alternatives to Riots but all Citizens Must Play”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConcrete and Wild Carrot\u003c\/i\u003e is Margaret Avison’s sixth book of poems, her first with Brick Books—though we now distribute her Lancelot Press books. She is one of Canada’s most respected writers, still at the top of her form in a career that stretches back to the 1940s, and during which she has gained three honorary degrees and two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry (for \u003ci\u003eWinter Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Time\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margaret Avison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278404333819,"sku":"9781894078245","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078245.jpg?v=1772487897","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/concrete-and-wild-carrot-9781894078245","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}