{"product_id":"invisible-dogs-9781926829845","title":"Invisible Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInvisible Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, Dempster's fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to the difficult business of staying alive. This is a book for when it hurts so bad you hope you'll die and are afraid you won't—not because it offers consolation or the promise of a new dawn, but because it so compellingly documents the plain, hard, ungraceful, stumbling grief of the matter, and meets it with rare self-knowledge, wry humour, and an unornamented determination to go on living.\u003cp\u003eDempster's metaphors are like hairpin turns taken at breakneck speed. He has nerves of steel when it comes to self-examination, and it's this relentless honesty and the emotional torque it induces that keep the voice on the road.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...He scrutinizes\u003cbr\u003ethe rearview mirror as if it were a bush about to spring\u003cbr\u003einto flames, the past appearing closer than it really is.\u003cbr\u003eMiles of missing her, those erratic white lines.\u003cbr\u003eHe keeps forgetting where he's going—city,\u003cbr\u003ecorner store, centre of the universe. No wonder\u003cbr\u003earrival feels so temporary, like a borrowed bathroom key.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"He Said\/She Said\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barry Dempster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278404006139,"sku":"9781926829845","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781926829845.jpg?v=1772488060","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/invisible-dogs-9781926829845","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}