{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"you-are-home","title":"You Are Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Cornelia Hoogland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;You Are Home, Cornelia Hoogland's newest book of poetry, is an exploration of life through verse. The book is dominated by images of flowers, forests and night. These provide the backdrop for poems on the death of a parent, childhood and parental anxiety, the ending of a romantic relationship, and finally the discovery of the self. The scope of this volume is at once universal and intensely personal. It is a book for anyone who has ever lost a loved one. It is for anyone who has ever confronted the anxiety of aging. 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It is also for anyone who has ever had love fail them...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"21Five Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39717218123960,"sku":"9780887533587","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/0024\/7224\/products\/YouAreHome.jpg?v=1752767106"},{"product_id":"wire-thin-bride","title":"Wire-Thin Bride","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;The Wire-Thin Bride, Cornelia Hoogland's first book of poetry, displays a major new talent. Hoogland offers a compassionate reading of the female experience, of lineage, love, family and death, with singular lyric intensity and emotion. Highly sophisticated, delicately wrought, these poems are the graceful affirmation of a woman's responding spirit and profound communion with the living past.\u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":33555201,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":0,\"12\":0,\"28\":1}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wire-Thin Bride, Cornelia Hoogland's first book of poetry, displays a major new talent. Hoogland offers a compassionate reading of the female experience, of lineage, love, family and death, with singular lyric intensity and emotion. Highly sophisticated, delicately wrought, these poems are the graceful affirmation of a woman's responding spirit and profound communion with the living past.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"21Five Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39717229068472,"sku":"9780888011473","price":8.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/0024\/7224\/products\/Wire-ThinBride.jpg?v=1752767104"},{"product_id":"forty-days-forty-nights","title":"Forty Days \u0026 Forty Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003eby John Terpstra\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"21Five Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39717254430904,"sku":"9780919417106","price":8.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/0024\/7224\/products\/FortyDays_FortyNights.jpg?v=1752767101"},{"product_id":"the-invention-of-honey","title":"The Invention of Honey","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;Ricardo Sternberg's writing is controlled and superb. 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Fairy tale-like pieces rest happily next to probing looks at the urban psyche; whimsical pieces about childhood mesh with harsh, adult realities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"21Five Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39717299880120,"sku":"9781550650068","price":8.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/0024\/7224\/files\/71d4qq2blwL._SL1500.jpg?v=1752767099"},{"product_id":"a-small-essay-on-the-largeness-of-light","title":"A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Thoughtful and passionate, this imaginative collection of poetry explores the many facets of the aboriginal individual. Through meticulously crafted portraits, lyrics, satires, mythologies, and meditations, these poems discuss issues related to perception, desire, youth, and aging as they relate to native life.\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":33555201,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":0,\"12\":0,\"28\":1}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eby Daniel David Moses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Thoughtful and passionate, this imaginative collection of poetry explores the many facets of the aboriginal individual. Through meticulously crafted portraits, lyrics, satires, mythologies, and meditations, these poems discuss issues related to perception, desire, youth, and aging as they relate to native life.\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":33555201,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":0,\"12\":0,\"28\":1}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThoughtful and passionate, this imaginative collection of poetry explores the many facets of the aboriginal individual. 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