{"product_id":"9781852249946-the-living-option","title":"The Living Option","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003e\"Enormous credit goes to Bloodaxe for commissioning this exhilarating volume, Solie’s first book publication outside Canada.there is hardly a poem in The Living Option that I wouldn't cite with alacrity and delight,\" wrote Michael Hofmann in The London Review of Books. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.\u003cbr\u003eKaren Solie won the Canadian Griffin Prize with only her third collection, Pigeon, in 2010, and has quickly established herself as one of the most distinctive and unsettling voices in Canadian poetry, a 'sublime singer of existential bewilderment'. Her poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, desire, and the eros of danger, constantly exposing the fragility of the basis of trust on which modern humanity relies. They are double-edged, tense and tender, an edgy blend of irony and guts, of snarl and praise, of sharp intelligence and quizzical ambiguity. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40946015010913,"sku":"9781852249946","price":9.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40842197_a0bdd3d1-7cd3-4032-b279-7a6e1446a325.jpg?v=1776416254","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781852249946-the-living-option","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}