{"product_id":"hypothetical-may-morning-michael-glover-9780993576294","title":"Hypothetical May Morning","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Glover's writes a poetry whose surface can be lightsome and almost casually, if not beguilingly, playful and direct. But the playfulness can be a deception. Laughter dries on the tongue. There is often a terrible uncertainty about the speaking voice, and a darkness about the themes the poems are exploring. The darkness of betrayal. The darkness of death. The darkness of never quite knowing where one stands. In short, the sands are forever shifting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis eighth collection, his first in five years, draws on a variety of themes and situations. It drifts on a boat in Canada. It constructs a quinoa cake from mere words and phrases. It scrutinises the films of the great improvisatory director John Cassavetes. It even picks apart the multifarious meanings of the word book itself. The influences are as generously widespread as the poems themselves, from Jorge Luis Borges to Archy and Mehitabel, from the lyrics of Edmund Spenser to the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the past, Michael Glover's poetry collections have largely consisted of single poems, each one self-sufficient. This volume, by contrast, is organised into several sequences. \u003cem\u003eThe Quinoa Cake Recipe\u003c\/em\u003e emerges from, and is a response to, long summer stays in Canada. \u003cem\u003eNotes to Harris\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of short poems in which one North American friend addresses another with a wry casualness. \u003cem\u003eUnder\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ethe Influence\u003c\/em\u003e, a homage to Cassavetes, is spoken by a male character from a typical Cassavetes film, wayward and anguished: 'I am a raging bull of a man. I pulverise everything I look at.' In short, this is the widest-ranging and most accomplished collection that Michael Glover has ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Glover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 099357629X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780993576294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 1889 Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d","brand":"Michael Glover","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452577497343,"sku":"9780993576294","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50151e55-095c-4770-ad7d-3fb5e83eacdd.jpg?v=1761929249","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hypothetical-may-morning-michael-glover-9780993576294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}