{"product_id":"9781925780406","title":"Salute","description":"Author: Ken Bolton\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925780406\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 137\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGee these poems be limber, you think, flipping thru the pages, admiring, here, the cut of this poem's jib, there the poise \u0026amp; rancour of another.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this is a book that might save your heart, a book to pull from your jacket pocket at some moment of last judgement \u0026amp; wave at the gate keeper, a tall and bearded dude, surely a hipster - avant la lettre but also after it - outside of time in fact, where final judgements are, and truth and poetry. You wave it at him. It's a talisman, dude, you say. 'An earnest,' says the figure, 'of your capacity for cool and rigour?' He nods and you smile. You both smile - and he waves you in.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Ken Bolton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'...bitchy, dreamy, acute...a deeply serious - \u0026amp; witty \u0026amp; almost self-canceling - consciousness at work' - Lyn McCredden, \u003ci\u003eHeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eEasy to appreciate, lightheartedness is not a natural or easy gift, and Bolton's - brilliantly articulate - shimmers with a sense of being 'amusing \u0026amp; sort of\/ Crooked in relation to things' - Nicholas Birns, \u003ci\u003eTransnational Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867092308126,"sku":"ADS-9781925780406","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925780406.jpg?v=1779429696","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925780406","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}