{"product_id":"9781773101088-soft-power","title":"Soft Power","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo drink\u003cbr\u003eAs the fanged stoat from the rabbit's nape\u003cbr\u003eAs though from a flagon of river water\u003cbr\u003eShaken with ancestral ash\u003cbr\u003eAs if it isn't knowledge you seek\u003cbr\u003eBut some osmotic soul-food\u003cbr\u003eTo be filled up with blurs\u003cbr\u003eThat might later resolve themselves\u003cbr\u003eInto memories\u003cbr\u003eTo return to where you really live\u003cbr\u003eWith changes in your blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in \u003ci\u003eSoft Power\u003c\/i\u003e are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet where \"generations hence \/ Inactivists will bathe under a sun made safe \/ By the collapse of oil-can economics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraversing badlands, sandhills, prairies, suburbia, Miami, London, Dublin, Paris, and beyond, Cole's voice revels in questions of travel while resonating with the \u003ci\u003eunheimlich\u003c\/i\u003e \"Canadalienation\" of his expatriate existence. Whether bog surfing, gallery hopping, bug hunting, or meditating on the \"strange genre\" of national anthems, the poems in Cole's long-awaited follow-up collection to his critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eQuestions in Bed\u003c\/i\u003e exist in a searching exchange with the world, both entering and being entered by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53539399795062,"sku":"9781773101088","price":11.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30648307.jpg?v=1729089080","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781773101088-soft-power","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}