{"product_id":"9781913211981-imperfect-beginnings","title":"Imperfect Beginnings","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn too early from their mother's breast, learn to adapt to harsh guardianship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eImperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn too early from their mother’s breast, learn to adapt to harsh guardianship. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelonging and exile are mirrored in the stories of having to leave one’s birthmother—or motherland. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom narrative poems such as ‘My Father Sold Cigarettes To The Nazis’, Fogel takes us on a journey throughout history, spanning ancestry, wartime, adoption and peacetime, as life settles. Family, work, love and the natural world provide purpose, meaning and a sense of coming ‘home’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40743289094241,"sku":"9781913211981","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28313310.jpg?v=1722498365","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913211981-imperfect-beginnings","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}