{"product_id":"angular-unconformity-don-mckay-9780864922403","title":"Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eAngular unconformity: a discordant surface of contact between the deposits of two episodes of sedimentation in which the older, underlying strata have undergone folding, uplift, and erosion before the deposition of the younger sediments, so that the younger strata truncate the older.\u003cbr\u003e-- Michael Allaby, ed., \u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Earth Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngular Unconformity\u003c\/i\u003e shows us a life's work in cross-section, a restless and humane intelligence, ever searching, ever shifting, finding meaning in our blink-of-an-eye existence against a backdrop of geological time unimaginable in its scale.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this volume, the first comprehensive collection of Don McKay's poetry, this pre-eminent Canadian poet displays his gift for thinking through metaphor, channelling a profound philosophical discourse through plain language and striking imagery. In his poetry, disciplined attention and contemplation break through the commonplace and illuminate an ecological understanding of the world as it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don McKay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 086492240X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780864922403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire Books of the Yr\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 16","brand":"Don McKay","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072851177727,"sku":"9780864922403","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bae1db55-7e56-4566-a3ec-9c96bfb775c7.jpg?v=1685444305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/angular-unconformity-don-mckay-9780864922403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}