{"product_id":"lay-studies-steven-toussaint-9781776562404","title":"Lay Studies","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLay Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these  tudes sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worshipful life in an age dominated by spectacle, violence, and environmental devastation. With great skill and compassion, he depicts scenes of domestic life in his adopted home of New Zealand, a transient year of religious and artistic soul-searching in the United Kingdom, and a growing sense of dislocation from his native United States in the Trump era. These are poems of profound contemplative inwardness, conjuring and conversing with a vast tradition of literature, scholarship, and art.\u003ci\u003e Lay Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful collection and a welcome music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Toussaint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1776562402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781776562404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Steven Toussaint","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942882672895,"sku":"9781776562404","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d971c164-42f7-4ec8-9fed-0cd0bde75157.jpg?v=1681494912","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lay-studies-steven-toussaint-9781776562404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}