{"product_id":"save-as-a-frances-johnson-9781922571106","title":"Save As","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Johnston wrote, 'If out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry, what \/ do we make of our quarrels with Canberra?' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e works to see these things together: memoir, elegy, politics and a feeling for earth. Its poems are everywhere complicated - doubled back on themselves - by A. Frances Johnson's excoriating awareness of how 'poetic' language is complicit in the commodification of place: using 'landscape' to furnish a poem with picturesque imagery; with the promise of some lasting beautiful elsewhere - 'mea culpa's last egotism: \/ lazy planetary leave-taking'. This is a principled, truthful, fiercely intelligent collection. \u003cem\u003e- Lisa Gorton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn poetry lucid and compelling, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e bears clear-eyed witness to the warfare waged against the planet by the captains and footsoldiers of industry. A record of environmental degradation, a tally of mounting human debts, and a catalogue of ghosts, both familial and communal, this collection is an uncompromising vision of our contemporary moment, and a moving elegy for what has been lost, and what is being lost - devastatingly, irretrievably - in the calamitous present.\u003cem\u003e - Bella Li\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Frances Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922571105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922571106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.19d","brand":"A. Frances Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074177331455,"sku":"9781922571106","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35777d33-9e67-4582-96ed-69c3f57de63f.jpg?v=1685452235","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/save-as-a-frances-johnson-9781922571106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}