{"product_id":"existing-music-nick-thran-9780889714861","title":"Existing Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrillium Book Award-winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eExisting Music\u003c\/em\u003e both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the \"sad song.\" The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speaker's favourite musicians--from the long gaps between one artist's records, and grief over another's suicide, to the marvelling at another's ability to write \"beautiful songs about potatoes.\" The long poem \"The Minim\" considers the sad song from the point of view of an amateur musician at practice, using language that riffs upon an existing dictionary of musical terms with an eye towards making \"vigorous chambers, frivolous rooms.\" Lastly, the collection considers the sad song as a collaboration within communities: whether at the bookstore, within a family or between two poets who write in different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Thran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 088971486X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889714861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nick Thran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46807259873535,"sku":"9780889714861","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be0d6376-51c9-4c43-8f74-36c10805a87e.jpg?v=1745378965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/existing-music-nick-thran-9780889714861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}