{"product_id":"9781922571106","title":"Save As","description":"Author: A. Frances Johnson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922571106\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 70\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Martin Johnston wrote, 'If out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry, what \/ do we make of our quarrels with Canberra?' Save As works to see these things together: memoir, elegy, politics and a feeling for earth. Its poems are everywhere complicated - doubled back on themselves - by A. Frances Johnson's excoriating awareness of how 'poetic' language is complicit in the commodification of place: using 'landscape' to furnish a poem with picturesque imagery; with the promise of some lasting beautiful elsewhere - 'mea culpa's last egotism: \/ lazy planetary leave-taking'. This is a principled, truthful, fiercely intelligent collection.\u0026amp;#x27; - Lisa Gorton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;In poetry lucid and compelling, Save As bears clear-eyed witness to the warfare waged against the planet by the captains and footsoldiers of industry. A record of environmental degradation, a tally of mounting human debts, and a catalogue of ghosts, both familial and communal, this collection is an uncompromising vision of our contemporary moment, and a moving elegy for what has been lost, and what is being lost  devastatingly, irretrievably - in the calamitous present.\u0026amp;#x27; - Bella Li\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861505724574,"sku":"ADS-9781922571106","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922571106.jpg?v=1779253155","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922571106","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}