{"product_id":"like-a-small-city-carla-de-goede-9780645375190","title":"Like a Small City","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarla de Goede's poems are poems of the celebration of survival. And they \u003cem\u003eare \u003c\/em\u003ea celebration, even the harrowing, the startling, the shocking poems. They celebrate the survival of the poet and the survival of her attempts to understand her world and to communicate her understanding to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough most of her poems seem centred in an urban world, they are infused with an Arcadian magic. Buildings, seen from a train, are 'running like concrete emus'. Pedestrians walk past 'like speeding skinks'. An abandoned house is 'all dark windows \/ and skulking cats'. A white-coated scientist is 'like a kite stuck in a tree'. The natural world is everywhere in her poems and refuses to be excluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe Goede's poems are intriguing, unsettling, hopeful, and joyful. She writes of 'scraping ink together \/ like I know what I'm doing'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe knows what she's doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carla de Goede\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0645375195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645375190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e In Case of Emergency Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d","brand":"Carla de Goede","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435621560575,"sku":"9780645375190","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52411bc1-8bbd-4482-bd8f-3fb82030438f.jpg?v=1777151588","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/like-a-small-city-carla-de-goede-9780645375190","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}