{"product_id":"ending-with-music-9781894078238","title":"Ending with Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaurice Mierau tackles big subjects—sex, senility, war, suicide—without a ponderous bone in his body. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis approach to poetry is amazingly vital, with a strong pop sensibility and a wry sense of humour. These poems are ripe with the atmosphere of a Wim Wenders film, with a little Isaac Bashevis Singer sprinkled in—an unforgettable mix of horror and fable. Jarringly beautiful at times, \u003cem\u003eEnding with Music\u003c\/em\u003e offers a vivid sense of person and place, encompassing Rilke, the rural Mennonite past, and the atrocities in Srebrenica.\u003c\/p\u003e\"when the executioner struck off the man's head something flew \u003cbr\u003eoff his face so he put up his hands \u003cbr\u003e(no one saw what it was or why he put his hands up but some \u003cbr\u003esaid they saw a black hen he tried whisking away and \u003cbr\u003eothers said it was a demon with shears \u003cbr\u003edancing and glinting in the sun) but everybody soon saw \u003cbr\u003ethe executioner's nose drop off which was \u003cbr\u003edefinitely God.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from “Revenge Stories”","brand":"Maurice Mierau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278412525819,"sku":"9781894078238","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078238.jpg?v=1772487898","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ending-with-music-9781894078238","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}