{"product_id":"a-gathered-distance-poems-paperback","title":"A Gathered Distance: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Tredinnick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Gathered Distance\u003c\/em\u003e is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as \"a most subtle orchestration of loss\". The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark's work affirms the value of \"lyric resistance\", poetry's mysterious way of making sense of things: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing.\" - \u003cem\u003eMark Tredinnick.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the title poem: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"...Be a garden in a city, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitious \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest half\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e father all your orphan fears; hold them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Near, as a father might...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780875256096,"sku":"9780995371842","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f103d42afe3eba147eee1fcb8bd5f6b8.webp?v=1780539259","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-gathered-distance-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}