{ "item_title" : "Touched", "item_author" : [" Ian Marriott "], "item_description" : "In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical 'pathology' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.Ian Marriott's marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature - in fact they do both - but are as much concerned with the human condition. They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, So perilous / this thin meniscus - / six legs spread out. The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision.- George Szirtes", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/78/864/136/1788641361_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "8.00", "online_price" : "8.00", "our_price" : "8.00", "club_price" : "8.00", "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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