{"product_id":"horizontal-surfaces-george-bowering-9781897388716","title":"Horizontal Surfaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom prolific Canadian writer George Bowering comes \u003ci\u003eHorizontal Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e, the complete collection of long-form poetic criticism that extends his 2007 chapbook of the same name, and the latest addition to BookThug's Department of Critical Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorizontal Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e came from the same atelier as earlier critical works, \u003ci\u003eCraft Slices\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003eErrata\u003c\/i\u003e (1988). In it, Bowering offers philosophical musings on topics as wide-ranging as poetry's accessibility and what that means for baseball (a favourite topic for the author), the solidity of Ezra Pound's writing, and spirituality in the west.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn some ways, readers may see this as a telling of Bowering's life to this point--a mid-life pseudo-memoir of sorts, after achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, poet, historian, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, judge of major literary competitions... But this work does so much more: expressing the value and validity of language; how words have been important to Bowering, as useful tools to exact meaning; and at the same time, calling into question the utility of poetry to truly represent those things that our senses perceive to be \"real.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Bowering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1897388713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781897388716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"George Bowering","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097089319167,"sku":"9781897388716","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/horizontal-surfaces-george-bowering-9781897388716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}