{"product_id":"9781770415461","title":"Mere Extinction: 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=\"\"\u003eChristie, Evie\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\u003ea misFit book\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\u003e4\/6\/2021\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\u003e“Christie’s audacious writing pulses with life and, yes, movement.” — \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn Evie Christie’s third book mothers nurse babies as the world comes to an end, fathers hustle or drift, the pastoral and the present collide, violence, love, and death gently fill the space and time they have been given. As surreal as they are domestic, Christie’s poems navigate the world they are in, struggle with history, the immediate, and what Richard Polt’s investigation of Heidegger would describe as “the emergency being.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBog Girl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Seamus Heaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI waited too long, was left waiting\u003cbr\u003e and here I am in my fruit-white youth,\u003cbr\u003e too young to go untouched, a balmy small-town dream \u003cbr\u003e touched up with pink where it mattered.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRemember the ways you wanted to touch and did not\u003cbr\u003e and finally broke in through the window and did\u003cbr\u003e until I got smart and found their sophistication: loveless bliss,\u003cbr\u003e made over and over ’til the earth packed under my nails\u003cbr\u003e was gone. Find me here, waiting, gone blue and winter cold,\u003cbr\u003e make out my parts from the windowsill,\u003cbr\u003e not gleaming, all the same, the same as ever.","brand":"a misFit book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46506375479551,"sku":"9781770415461","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781770415461_s600x595.jpg?v=1781621714","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781770415461","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}