{"product_id":"the-king-of-terrors-9781552454701","title":"The King of Terrors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten after a brain tumour diagnosis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe King of Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we're never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is a moving, fierce intensity to \u003ci\u003eThe King of Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e. Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, ‘each bloody \/ mouthful a sentence fragment.’ These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone – despite a future only as certain ‘as the body \/\/ it inhabits’ – offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself.\" – \u003cb\u003eRandall Mann, author of \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe King of Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living 'between \/ age and agency.' Haunting, stark, and lyrical, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe King of Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is charged, as all the best poetry is, with the shock of the mortal.\" – \u003cb\u003eSarah Holland-Batt, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Jaguar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jim Johnstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308072186107,"sku":"9781552454701","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781552454701.jpg?v=1772484741","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-king-of-terrors-9781552454701","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}