{"product_id":"all-we-saw-anne-michaels-9780451493118","title":"All We Saw: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (\u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault\u003c\/i\u003e) and poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e All We Saw, \u003c\/i\u003e Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: \"what love makes us capable of, and incapable of.\" Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that \"death . . . give \/ not only take from us.\" This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is \"not inside \/ not outside: dusk's \/ doorway,\" where memory might be kept alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Michaels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0451493117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451493118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Anne Michaels","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978366189823,"sku":"9780451493118","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e2eaf82-35a4-486a-a2d9-ec9cda228b22.jpg?v=1683241145","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-we-saw-anne-michaels-9780451493118","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}