{"product_id":"the-lost-letters-9781926829852","title":"The Lost Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtmospherically light and stylistically expansive poems that regard our givens as a gift.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon McKay's description of \u003ci\u003eThe Pearl King and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Greenwood's wonderful first book, also apply to \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Letters\u003c\/i\u003e: \"With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a pearl...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the centre of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Letters\u003c\/i\u003e is a sequence of radically diverse poems based on the story of Heloise and Abelard, truly lovers in a dangerous time, the twelfth century. The raw material is heavy, tension between flesh and spirit being the serious issue carried forward from the twelfth century into the twenty-first. But Greenwood's deft and delicate handling of scenarios of love requited but balked becomes a perceptive reading—extraordinarily inventive and constantly surprising of contemporary secular society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Letters\u003c\/i\u003e creates a world of wonder tinged with sadness on behalf of so much that goes unnoticed, whether it's a bin of severed sows' ears, a lizard tethered by its tail who severs it by self-amputation, or a down-and-out old schoolmate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catherine Greenwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278407184635,"sku":"9781926829852","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781926829852.jpg?v=1772488059","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-lost-letters-9781926829852","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}