{"product_id":"if-christina-shah-9780889715028","title":"If: Prey, Then: Huntress: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her much-anticipated debut collection, Christina Shah captures the landscape of heavy industry in Canada through the perceptive eyes of a poet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a poet working in heavy industry comes an eclectic collection of observations and experiences as a woman on the road and out in the field in traditionally male-dominated environments. \u003cem\u003eif: prey, then: huntress\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of vulnerability, agency and existential homelessness, replete with portraits of beer drinkers and hellraisers and urban landscapes. These poems illuminate the beauty and truth amid the concrete, twisted metal and scraped knuckles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt a time when Western Canada is reimagining its resource-based economy, Shah's poems position her as a wandering eulogist for old industrial ways of knowing--and for their greying practitioners in the mines, paper mills, shipyards and scrapyards that undergird modern life. The reader is invited into a world that, like the breath, is both dying and being born every minute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina Shah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0889715025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889715028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Christina Shah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47203240116479,"sku":"9780889715028","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccca04ed-4870-411c-ab4a-6a628243622c.jpg?v=1756834766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-christina-shah-9780889715028","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}