{"product_id":"five-fifty-five-9781780376578","title":"Five Fifty-Five","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFive Fifty-Five\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a book of \u003c\/span\u003equizzical poems concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions about our lives, such as \u003ci\u003eWhere have you gone?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWho were you anyway? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her first new collection since \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silvering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2016), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaura Dooley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tries to find out through conversations with, among others, Louisa M. Alcott, Hokusai, Jane Austen, Buzz Aldrin, Anne Tyler and the Great Uncle and Grandfather she never knew. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poems, too, about the difficulties and responsibilities of translation, both from the written word and in interpreting what is left unspoken in different kinds of absence; empty streams, bare trees, the loss of friends. Yet these are poems that find and try to offer consolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maura Dooley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280134844667,"sku":"9781780376578","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780376578.jpg?v=1772486442","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/five-fifty-five-9781780376578","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}