{"product_id":"after-you-were-i-am-camille-ralphs-9781963270297","title":"After You Were, I Am","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary debut from Camille Ralphs, heralding the arrival of a major new talent. In \u003ci\u003eAfter You Were, I Am\u003c\/i\u003e, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections - rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters, and how our past informs (and informs on) our present. This is poetry as incantation, plea and invocation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a vast range of influences, from sacred texts and early modern drama to Metaphysical wit, twentieth-century Confessionalism and contemporary irony and mistrust, this ambitious debut embodies the variety and singularity of living voices past and present, which through rapturous music, anarchic wordplay and formal distortion are dragged to breaking point. The very history of the English language glows through the cracks. The effect is a terrestrial transcendence, as spaces within and between human thoughts expand to reveal a shared heritage of faults and answerless questions at every turn. Ralphs's style is utterly distinctive; she is a modern metaphysical, maker of poetry that in comprehending the past manages to make of it something utterly original and contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Camille Ralphs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963270290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963270297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 6.34w x 0.56d","brand":"Camille Ralphs","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453235605759,"sku":"9781963270297","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86546928-89aa-4ec8-9467-31a674a141d9.jpg?v=1777299008","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-you-were-i-am-camille-ralphs-9781963270297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}