{"product_id":"lent-kate-cayley-9781771668118","title":"Lent: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLent\u003c\/i\u003e from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary--large and small--converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, and moments. The grotesque and the tedious, the baroque and the banal, intertwine in the first three sections. Meticulous depictions of spectacle run into the repetition of daily domestic life: trying to explain time to children, day trips to the planetarium, and the warnings of strangers; these are interspersed with depictions such as Mary Shelley recalling the monster, the inner life of a seventeenth century portrait sitter, and Ted Hughes's second wife telling her story to the dead Sylvia Plath. The title section explores religious faith; how belief is itself a repetition, a slow accumulation over time, just like love or forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLent\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite work of our era, asking us to contemplate what it means to live in a broken world--and why we still find it beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Cayley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771668113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771668118\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 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/18\/2023","brand":"Kate Cayley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073231417599,"sku":"9781771668118","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9fc0e62-27f4-485d-8ad9-8de3ec44bba8.jpg?v=1685446598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lent-kate-cayley-9781771668118","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}