{"product_id":"9780771047862","title":"Wartime Measures: Poems","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePrior, Michael\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMcClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3\/23\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fierce meditation on the intimate costs of state violence—grief, inheritance, and \"how to caretake what remains.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on his own family history, Michael Prior’s third collection examines the legacies of the dispossession, displacement, and incarceration of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Here, the landscapes of British Columbia are haunted by both the beauty of Japanese sumi-e paintings and the terror of state violence, while history \"flicker[s] through \/ the slanting thicket \/ like words whispered \/ to be misheard \/ in a classroom game\/of telephone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn language at once sonorous and precise, \u003ci\u003eWartime Measures\u003c\/i\u003e asks what can be written \"that won't make miniatures of grief,\" and reckons with questions about authenticity, elegy, generational memory, and the self, measuring the moments when \"light” aligns “with shadow, was with is.”","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48837806588159,"sku":"9780771047862","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780771047862","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}