{"product_id":"if-you-discover-a-fire-9781771315272","title":"If You Discover a Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrecision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular meter, on their own unreliable meaning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVancouver poet Shaun Robinson's \u003ci\u003eIf You Discover a Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut collection of poems that make a virtue of their failure to communicate. They forage through the syntax and vocabulary of late-night voicemails, letters to the editor, songs invented in the shower, professional jargon, \"Witness Wanted\" signs, technical manuals, and text-message typos to assemble verbal collages that raise more questions than they answer. In settings ranging from Montreal's Mile End to a commercial flight above the Midwest to a wildfire in the mountains of British Columbia, these are poems rooted in working-class Canadian experience, poems that flirt with both safety and danger, that drone on like drunken strangers in a bar. Gathering reference from weather reports, football announcers, aerial disappearances, and the movie \u003ci\u003eGroundhog Day\u003c\/i\u003e, these poems sound their forlorn yawp through the alleys of East Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Out on the porch, between shots, he tells you \u003cbr\u003ethings you've always known, how the past \u003cbr\u003eand the future are lovers spooning \u003cbr\u003ein bed, and the present is how they don't \u003cbr\u003equite fit together\"\u003cbr\u003e — \"Carpe Dos and Carpe Don'ts (ft. Panda Bear)\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shaun Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278405906683,"sku":"9781771315272","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781771315272.jpg?v=1772486317","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/if-you-discover-a-fire-9781771315272","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}