{"product_id":"short-journey-upriver-toward-oishida-roo-borson-9780771015915","title":"Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida","description":"In Roo Borson s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always the line bends as the river bends, a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho s famous journey to the far north, Borson s short journey reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roo Borson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0771015917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780771015915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.50w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2004 pg. 49","brand":"Roo Borson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981200654591,"sku":"9780771015915","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8d6f46c-5360-4a4f-a4bb-173cf0fe061d.jpg?v=1683254208","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/short-journey-upriver-toward-oishida-roo-borson-9780771015915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}