{"product_id":"first-arleen-parzs-9781771315425","title":"First","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 CITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGovernor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eFirst\u003c\/i\u003e, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives, beginnings and longings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis layered evocation of the past--of childhood in 1950s Dorval, \"a green mesh of girls friendships and fights\"--and the intensity of the desire to know, give \u003ci\u003eFirst\u003c\/i\u003e its haunting beauty. \"[T]he word though old fashioned,\" Paré writes, \"is \u003ci\u003ewhence \u003c\/i\u003e...unconditioned origins\" when \"\u003ci\u003eno worthy question is ever answered on the same plane that it was asked\u003c\/i\u003e; how to frame the question not knowing the plane on which I must ask it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arleen Paré\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771315423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771315425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.50d","brand":"Arleen Paré","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519335772415,"sku":"9781771315425","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d80847f-00f3-4f3b-be6f-e7a1305cb208.jpg?v=1778737288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-arleen-parzs-9781771315425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}