{"product_id":"pluviophile-yusuf-saadi-9780889713741","title":"Pluviophile","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePluviophile\u003c\/i\u003e veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language. Its poems continually revitalize form, imagery and sonancy to reconsider the ways we value language, beauty and body. The collection houses sonnets and other shorter poems between larger, more meditative runes. One of these longer poems, \"The Place Words Go to Die,\" winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter a symbiotic relationship with the human, where \"\u003ci\u003esaxum\u003c\/i\u003e  is] sacrificed and born again as \u003ci\u003esaxifrage\u003c\/i\u003e.\" From here the poems shift to diverse locations, from Montreal to Kolkata, from the moon to the gates of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yusuf Saadi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 088971374X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889713741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\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 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Yusuf Saadi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995214840063,"sku":"9780889713741","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d311995d-3c9a-4259-871f-672eba8d98c9.jpg?v=1683334517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pluviophile-yusuf-saadi-9780889713741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}