{"product_id":"noble-gas-penny-black-9781894078689","title":"Noble Gas, Penny Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2009 LAMPMAN-SCOTT AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucid accurate detail and music at every turn.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMany of the poems in \u003ci\u003eNoble Gas, Penny Black\u003c\/i\u003e explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David O'Meara's work. Travel—being between places, in stations and airports and unfamiliar cities—creates a psychological, emotional space rife with reassessment, where the individual dwells simultaneously in the future and in the past. At the same time, O'Meara imbues the domestic with a similar compelling transience, in poems on love and current events, where \"History's narrowed eye\" roams over landscapes \"felt \/ but never held, like wind over water.\" O'Meara gives us lucid, accurate detail and music at every turn, and is entangled enough with the world to make us ache:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Through the candid gloom of the bar I watch you\u003cbr\u003emourning there among the faces, a hall of mirrors\u003cbr\u003elit with stories and clumsy stabs\u003cbr\u003eat humour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewe hope will frame and explain a life. I hold\u003cbr\u003emyself in a cool remove, stubborn over beers.\u003cbr\u003eWanting, times like this, to be like you.\u003cbr\u003eIn tears.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"After the Funeral\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David O'Meara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278408888571,"sku":"9781894078689","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078689.jpg?v=1772487899","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/noble-gas-penny-black-9781894078689","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}