{"product_id":"9781773102252-a-thin-fire-runs-through-me","title":"A thin fire runs through me","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach line a strip of skin torn from me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA thin fire runs through me\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Trainor interrogates what it means to exist, to navigate the quotidian amidst the constant drip-feed of political and ecological disasters. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten over an intense nine-month period in 2016 and 2017 amidst the stresses of heartbreak, depression, and the progression of a new love, Trainor’s exquisite sequence of short poems offers meditations on different hexagrams in the \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eBook of Changes\u003c\/i\u003e. Incorporating fragments from reportage on current events, Jewish liturgy, and lyric poetics, she latches her readers to the present while acknowledging the inescapable presence of the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA thin fire runs through me\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with Trainor’s own personal circumstance while contemporaneously documenting the tenor of our times, suggesting that “We peer into other lives; we absorb words, headlines, violent events. We see and we don’t see. These scraps are unintegrated, unintegratable, yet we carry them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40850549178465,"sku":"9781773102252","price":11.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29796280.jpg?v=1728924838","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781773102252-a-thin-fire-runs-through-me","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}