{"product_id":"night-work-9781771314947","title":"Night Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the \"intense, moody, contradictory\" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Denied the leap and dash up the ice, \u003cbr\u003ewhat goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk \u003cbr\u003eand cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhere \u003cbr\u003eas they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing, \u003cbr\u003ewhich brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apart \u003cbr\u003ein bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities. \u003cbr\u003eBut it's their saving sense of irony that further \u003cbr\u003eisolates them as it saves.\"\u003cbr\u003e —from \"One of You\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn compact, conversational poems, \u003ci\u003eNight Work: The Sawchuk Poems\u003c\/i\u003e follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs's poems. They range from meditations on ancient\/modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. \u003ci\u003eNight Work: The Sawchuk Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 10th anniversary edition of the book marks both the 50th anniversary of the last time the Leafs won the Stanley Cup and the 100th anniversary of the Leafs as a team. With rich reflections on the book by novelist Angie Abdou and Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean, as well as excerpts from scores of reviews by the likes of Gord Downie and Dave Bidini, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eNight Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-have for lovers of hockey and poetry alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Randall Maggs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278411444475,"sku":"9781771314947","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781771314947.jpg?v=1772486318","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/night-work-9781771314947","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}