{"product_id":"errings-paperback-softback-9780823257768","title":"Errings (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823257768","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eErrings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Streckfus (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823257768\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e96 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.156 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent—a lost leader, a remote love, a protege not yet born—and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next. \"Videos of Fish,\" the opening sequence, speaks to the spirit of the poet's late father, adapting devices from Dante, Tibetan metaphysical\u003cbr\u003e philosophy, and the biomechanics of the most primitive of vertebrate bodies, the fish, to envision paths of the disembodied soul. \"How difficult it is to remain one person,\" the poet claims, echoing Czesław Miłosz; in its progress between persons, the collection's regular shifts in mode and form include the purgatorian tercet,\u003cbr\u003e the Japanese poetic diary, didactic verse, the Persian ghazal, the erasure, and the miniature.\u003cbr\u003e THE READER\u003cbr\u003e Experience among the waves allows one to limit the field.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Each year he grew another soul, oblong, slightly pointed at the end, like\u003cbr\u003e an oar, its surface turned to the light.\u003cbr\u003e Blacken now and lift your news into the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734393843992,"sku":"9780823257768","price":17.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/errings-paperback-softback-9780823257768","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}