{"product_id":"standing-in-the-flock-of-connections-9781771314794","title":"Standing in the Flock of Connections","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that skitter between life and death, \"sleep and hurry,\" at their heart a kind of tender panic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eStanding in the Flock of Connections\u003c\/i\u003e, Heather Cadsby's fifth collection of poetry, is one hundred proof associative thought. These poems testify to the human mind's capacity to \"do\"—taking into account all of the performative, causal, athletic, and sexual connotations of that verb. Many of them come in on an overheard conversation or monologue—mid-fight, mid-stride—and the absent details and specifics often function to open up a space for things to become other things, for the flock of connections to swarm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI love a pentagram. You can draw that thing\u003cbr\u003eall day freehand, sloppy. Five-star\u003cbr\u003ehotels, movies, generals. Throw it around\u003cbr\u003elike it was a love number, which it is.\u003cbr\u003eCut an apple horizontally, there it is.\u003cbr\u003eDraw one inside its centre pentagon and so on\u003cbr\u003enesting smaller forever. Till you call it quits\u003cbr\u003eand start singing Holy etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e(from \"Sunday geometer\")\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Heather Cadsby:\u003cbr\u003e\"...verse that demonstrates wit and levity as well as a seriousness at its heart...capable of blasphemy...an honest inquiry into life and the inherent duality of the moment.\"—Gillian Harding-Russell, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heather Cadsby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278404530427,"sku":"9781771314794","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781771314794.jpg?v=1772486317","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/standing-in-the-flock-of-connections-9781771314794","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}