{"product_id":"console-colin-channer-9780374613952","title":"Console: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second collection by \"one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAssured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, \u003ci\u003eConsole \u003c\/i\u003ereconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem's meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice, and transgressions in the home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation, and the universal ritual of \"the walk,\" \u003ci\u003eConsole \u003c\/i\u003ereorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies, and turns words inside out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes 8 black-and-white photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Channer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374613958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374613952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Colin Channer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598228123903,"sku":"9780374613952","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c99c1be7-fbe3-46b1-8b32-d0d975651b93.jpg?v=1702381316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/console-colin-channer-9780374613952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}