{"product_id":"alone-with-seoul-cottia-fortune-9781788641982","title":"Alone with Seoul","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe persona that moves through \u003cem\u003eAlone with Seoul\u003c\/em\u003e is a shadow, an observer in two foreign lands-South Korea, where the poet is an incomer, and the land of love, from which the poet has stepped aside. There are griefs here that run deep and there is the hard nugget of knowing survival. There is the unflinching honesty that absence, pain and the drama it brings can become a comforting place to hide, that giving these up is a deeper and different loss, one that may allow love to arrive again one day: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot as tempest, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot as fire to burn me clean, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut as quiet, steady light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilence and solitude, the temptations of self-destruction and the ways we navigate an often alienating world thread through poems that are exquisitely pared to the essentials of a lucid image and a perfect phrase. Poems that are enhanced by fragments of translation into South Korean. A distinctive, elegant debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cottia Fortune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788641981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788641982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cinnamon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.08d","brand":"Cottia Fortune","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440667996415,"sku":"9781788641982","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5adfc52b-97cf-4125-b3e4-9fb147784492.jpg?v=1777184002","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alone-with-seoul-cottia-fortune-9781788641982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}