{"product_id":"9781472158680-paper-crown","title":"Paper Crown","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAPER CROWN combines the play and humour of Heather's earliest work with the emotional and autobiographical turn of THE CRYING BOOK. Christle explores familial relationships, the nature of memory, and the outer edges of imagination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her' Kaveh Akbar, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a stunning book' Jericho Brown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A striking celebration of risk and beauty' Kit Fan, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e is Heather Christle's first new collection of poems in over a decade. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout these exuberant poems, Christle conjures moments when the world's events - a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinners with friends - alight themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith tenderness and verse, honesty and curiosity, \u003ci\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to look up from its pages and recognise that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMistake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor years I have seen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003edead animals on the highway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand grieved for them \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eonly to realize they are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003enot dead animals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ethey are t shirts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eor bits of blown tire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand I have found\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003emyself with this\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eexcess of grief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have made with \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eno object to let\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eit spill over and\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have not known\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ewhere to put it or\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ekeep it and then today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI thought \u003ci\u003eI know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can give it to you\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55366125715830,"sku":"9781472158680","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_13535552_27450_20250508042211.jpg?v=1746682645","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472158680-paper-crown","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}