{ "item_title" : "A Gathered Distance", "item_author" : [" Mark Tredinnick "], "item_description" : "A Gathered Distance 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: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. - Mark Tredinnick.From the title poem:...Be a garden in a city,And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitiousPieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest halfA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, andfather all your orphan fears; hold themNear, as a father might...", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/99/537/184/0995371849_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.00", "online_price" : "25.00", "our_price" : "25.00", "club_price" : "25.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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