{"product_id":"hard-light-9781771313469","title":"Hard Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew light on Michael Crummey's classic depiction of Newfoundland and Labrador's past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of \u003ci\u003eHard Light\u003c\/i\u003e features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHard Light,\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1998, Crummey retells and reimagines his father's and others' stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery. These deeply felt poems are rooted in the places where \"human desire comes up against rock\" (John Steffler).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have a fair trial on the fishing line now,\u003cbr\u003ebeing three summers out from home, two summers on\u003cbr\u003ethe French Shore, four down on the Labrador,\u003cbr\u003eand three trips this year to the Banks of Newfoundland,\u003cbr\u003eand this is what I have learned to be the price of fish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\"'The price of fish.' (September, 1887)\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In these stories and poems, an intimate, bright world flares up, glowing in the darkness of recent history, full-blown and vivid.\"\u003cb\u003e—Lisa Moore, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Crummey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278405153019,"sku":"9781771313469","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781771313469.jpg?v=1772486317","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/hard-light-9781771313469","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}