{"product_id":"9781773100135-correspondent","title":"Correspondent","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted, Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr\u003eAn on-the-scene report of a childhood abroad. A child's vision of real-world events made real (and unreal) by the presence of his father.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMemories of snow falling on Quebec City's copper roofs; scientists tracking the location of a sinking submarine near the Russian Coast. Children flipping bright kopeks at a dancing bear outside a flea market; a translator awaking from a suicide bombing with ears ringing, surrounded by destruction. A young boy watching his father report the news on TV as hostages hold wet handkerchiefs to their mouths, trying not to breathe too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcross the street, a red sun sets the windows of the Hotel Ukraina on fire. The tallest of Stalin's seven sisters. We huddle on the couch in our pyjamas. My mother holding a remote in her lap. Static sky, bad reception. The TV clearing its throat. My father's body, cut in half, moving up and down the screen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis remarkably confident debut collection offers three long prose poems, each divided into 19 sections, fusing images of bucolic coastal summers, a father fixed by a television broadcast, and the colours of a Moscow winter with vividly depicted scenes of gunfire, media scrums, and live reporting. In this unusual hybrid of the personal and the historical, Dominque Bernier-Cormier tenders alternating perspectives on what is said, what is seen, and where the silence begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55607796957558,"sku":"9781773100135","price":11.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34490133_ee3d048e-debe-4231-a869-fe84c3ba1fd3.jpg?v=1747951777","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781773100135-correspondent","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}