{"product_id":"9781647790943-joyful-orphan","title":"Joyful Orphan","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003eThrough poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin’s elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound.\u003cbr\u003eThrough poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin's elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound. With the incursion of electronic communication, our connections with one another have been radically distorted. Irwin's poems confront what it means to be human, and how conflict, along with the interface between technology and humanity, can cause us to become orphaned in many different ways. But it is our decision to be joyful. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from \"Letter\"\u003cbr\u003eTimes when we touch hope like the hem of a cloud\u003cbr\u003ejust as when we touch a body or door, or think \u003cbr\u003eof the dead come back, romancing \u003cbr\u003eus through the warp of memory, lighting a way\u003cbr\u003eby luring .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55422057742710,"sku":"9781647790943","price":14.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28235585.jpg?v=1742894450","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781647790943-joyful-orphan","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}