{"product_id":"other-peoples-lives-9781894078757","title":"Other People's Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson's poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man's-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, bringing skeptical intelligence and radical imagination—those supposedly incompatible room-mates—into electrical connection. The result is a poetry of daring honesty, close observation, and humanity, executed with exhilarating verve and humour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Each day's a notch on the oven dial\u003cbr\u003ethe sadistic hand of summer turns. The locals here\u003cbr\u003ewear mirrored glasses with the mirrors reversed!\u003cbr\u003eWas I ever filled with sweetness and courage?\u003cbr\u003eFor miles and miles the asphalt unwinds, the river's\u003cbr\u003eevil twin. So is desire your enemy's friend,\u003cbr\u003egoes the jazz of imagined footsteps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eslapping the city's impervious skin. So each day\u003cbr\u003elapses, un-spools each night as I go scheming\u003cbr\u003eways to continue, safe within and darkly through\u003cbr\u003ean immaterial sublime. But the walls are sweating\u003cbr\u003eand the windows here peer in towards this sheltered\u003cbr\u003ecorner of the universe — where I'm in trouble again\u003cbr\u003ewith words, and other people's lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"Cross-Sections\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Hutchinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278412329211,"sku":"9781894078757","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078757.jpg?v=1772487902","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/other-peoples-lives-9781894078757","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}