{"product_id":"lurch","title":"Lurch","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[McKay's] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award, Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld joke: “What’s the difference between a lurch and a dance step?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I didn’t think so. Let’s sit down.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon rises from the ocean and you lurch with astonishment that we live on a rocky sphere whirling in space. Or the bird in your hand—a pipit or a storm petrel—conveys the exquisite frailty of existence. And there’s the complex of lurches as we contemplate our complicity in the sixth mass extinction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eLurch\u003c\/i\u003e, language dances its ardent incompetence as a translator of “the profane wonders of the wilderness,” whether manifest as Balsam Fir, Catbirds, the extinct Eskimo Curlew, or the ever-present Cosmic Microwave Background.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the difference between a love song and an elegy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        \u003ci\u003eWe live between eroding raindrops\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                        and accelerating clocks. The piano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                        lifts its lid to show its wire-and-hammer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                        heart.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50952322908448,"sku":"9780771057854","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780771057854.jpg?v=1763655439","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/lurch","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}