{"product_id":"yellow-crane-9781771314916","title":"Yellow Crane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJURY SELECTION FOR LE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYellow Crane\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape of a Montreal neighbourhood becomes at once a lament and a love poem. A sequence of poems inspired by Japanese \u003ci\u003etanka\u003c\/i\u003e take on the cultural weather, core-drilling into the contradictions and uncertainties of the everyday. Writers, artists, thinkers, cooks, and others congregate in a hammock on the edge of a hayfield to compare notes on what we value. A bear turns up on a path near a quarry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eYellow Crane\u003c\/i\u003e study, with a lover's tender yet critical eye, the world we occupy and the way we occupy it: art, industry, environments both built and natural; the simultaneous flux and agelessness of our daily habits; the long human story of appropriation of wilderness; the fragility, resilience, and questionable worth of what we make, especially under political, economic, and social pressures; concern about our changing times; grief over what we leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book that argues with itself, then rests. At once precise and loose, wise and nimble, it will make you both feel and think — and care about the world along with it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"We know the tree stands for promise\u003cbr\u003eand for the desire, which comes much later, for atonement.\u003cbr\u003eWe stand at the west-facing window\u003cbr\u003eand let the buildings opposite turn gold, then back to brick.\"\u003cbr\u003e(from \"Morning Light\")\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Gillis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278413738235,"sku":"9781771314916","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781771314916.jpg?v=1772486317","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/yellow-crane-9781771314916","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}