{"product_id":"monsoon-diary-joseph-woods-9781910251355","title":"Monsoon Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween the birth of the poet's daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMonsoon Diary \u003c\/em\u003eattempt to make sense of the world, from a mid-life flight from home \u003cem\u003een famille\u003c\/em\u003e to new perspectives on both the past and the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMonsoon Diary\u003c\/em\u003e strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the seeds of a new half-crown of sonnets in a line of Catullus, and, in \u003cem\u003eDriving to Delvin\u003c\/em\u003e, a poem of 84 couplets, breaks out into a kind of road movie of spirited and sometimes random association, bringing all of the book's many themes and ideas, its fears and hopes, together in a celebration of forward motion, of living itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Woods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910251356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910251355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dedalus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d","brand":"Joseph Woods","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138380067071,"sku":"9781910251355","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ecf5a2fd-003b-48c4-8072-4c4d32681d5e.jpg?v=1687899340","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/monsoon-diary-joseph-woods-9781910251355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}