{"product_id":"9781550179811","title":"The Quiet in Me","description":"Author: Patrick Lane\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781550179811\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harbour Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 Jan 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 64\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies-the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river-ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is \"a museum for what's gone\" and a heart is \"the sound of the wind seething,\" there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: \"the song of the falling water and wild birds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering-to come back to yourself and to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playing in paradoxes-\"empty marrow bones with their strings of red ants\"-these poems cultivate dualisms: intimacy and realism, vulnerability and the roughness of youth, a scar that is a father's teaching, a blade that is a sigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Canada's most lyric writers comes a book steeped in the wisdom of the natural world. Told by an eye that never ceases to observe and a heart that is willing to make itself known-to invite others into its warmth and wilderness-this collection transposes leaf to leaf, stone to stone, reminding us that water will always return to water and so will we.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830033666206,"sku":"ADS-9781550179811","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781550179811.jpg?v=1778558532","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781550179811","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}