{"product_id":"9780374536862","title":"Standing Water","description":"Author: Eleanor Chai\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780374536862\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 May 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound literary debut that recounts a child’s singular story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSince I made you, you may\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e imagine I set myself on fire\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e or better, say: you lit the funeral pyre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e from ten thousand days away.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nA young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum. A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanako—titled \u003ci\u003eHead of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e—triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Thus begins Eleanor Chai’s \u003ci\u003eStanding Water\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years. It is a journey into the past as well as the present—into the narrative hidden from the poet since birth, as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive. It is a journey about how we learn to cope with, to perceive and describe, the world. It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little Hanako—Rodin’s model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901052436638,"sku":"ING-9780374536862","price":23.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780374536862.jpg?v=1782352676","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780374536862","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}