{"product_id":"before-you-leeanne-quinn-9781906614485","title":"Before You","description":"Loss and memory. The poems of the first section of Irish poet Leeanne Quinn's debut collection explore the intimacies of a sibling relationship, and revisit it from a distance travelled since, where new experience is \"the earth's irreproachable \/ response to your absence\". Other poems intersperse this main narrative, inspired by a variety of subjects, from Gertrude Stein to the Drogheda-born artist Nano Reid, natural disasters to the complex territory of broken relationships. Pain is evoked, sensed never far from the surface, but the telling remains oblique, the particulars refusing a simple summary or conclusion. Life goes on, in what one of the poems in the second section calls \"this awful business of living\", a variant on a phrase by Elizabeth Bishop whose letters, in counterpoint to the book's first section, prompt and provide an external departure point and reference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leeanne Quinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1906614482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781906614485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dedalus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Leeanne Quinn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419576418559,"sku":"9781906614485","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06b214ad-3384-46bc-abda-1ab135bc6991.jpg?v=1761512471","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-you-leeanne-quinn-9781906614485","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}