{"product_id":"ashland-gil-adamson-9781770410152","title":"Ashland","description":"From Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander and Ridgerunner, nominated for the Giller Prize Neogothicism, the surrealist snapshot, feminist Western and postmodern parable are just some of the elements that feed Gil Adamson's second collection of poems. Adamson creates a world fully awash in violence and history, the absurdities of the frontier, the gorgeous terrors of death. Everything is simple, and yet nothing is as it seems. Moving easily from prose poem to lyric, verbal portrait to improbable biography, Ashland leads us on a macabre tour of our nightmares, perverse secrets, and death-focused mythologies: \"In the end we see ourselves. We last longer. The night opens its mouth, and we step in.\" The poems in Ashland lay the groundwork for Adamson's award-winning and internationally bestselling fiction. We look away from his open mouth, look instead at the corn, the crows floating above the river in their private worries. Tonight, when we turn in, the candle will sputter and blow. Pinched out easily, all flame gives way to this wide black wing. -- excerpt from \"Black Wing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gil Adamson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1770410155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770410152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.54w x 0.34d","brand":"Gil Adamson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44254991745279,"sku":"9781770410152","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80eba5b5-6711-4f07-925f-2548ecc500a0.jpg?v=1694615491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ashland-gil-adamson-9781770410152","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}