{"product_id":"textile-with-birds-and-smoke-keri-finlayson-9781837380152","title":"Textile with Birds and Smoke","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing from, and reflecting on, the experience of teenage years stilled by illness and pain, for this, her second collection, Keri Finlayson has made poems concerned with the complementarity and tension of movement and stasis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the poems explore the meanings of textile as a weight and as a constant, as covering and as clothing. Some take comfort in the reassuring permanence of trees. Others, by contrast, represent fluidity: the flow of gossip, bird song, nursery rhymes, smoke, speech and scent; things that might move around the still island of the body or the bed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere poetry is shown to be an attempt to make objects out of all that movement, and all that stillness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keri Finlayson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1837380155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781837380152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Keri Finlayson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217991348479,"sku":"9781837380152","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b28ce13c-5b21-4e3f-a70b-22e41f6d4add.jpg?v=1772000725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/textile-with-birds-and-smoke-keri-finlayson-9781837380152","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}