{"product_id":"the-beautiful-afternoon-airini-beautrais-9781776921324","title":"The Beautiful Afternoon","description":"In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the many influences on her life, from Lord Byron and Dante to Dolly magazine and 90s R\u0026amp;B, with intense curiosity and a fierce intelligence. Whether saving the planet in her Quaker childhood and activist youth, surviving the lonely years of early motherhood, or confronting the fears and freedoms of midlife - in which she writes about the body becoming a poem and human touch beginning to feel safe again - Beautrais' lucid examination of experience reveals that the personal is inescapably political. Throughout these wide-ranging essays her vigilant critique of entrenched patriarchal control turns anger to resistance, as a woman finds a way out of its grip, back to herself and the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Airini Beautrais\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1776921321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781776921324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Airini Beautrais","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965855908095,"sku":"9781776921324","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a42b4a18-98b1-4eef-b111-98bf3369b08c.jpg?v=1767285308","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beautiful-afternoon-airini-beautrais-9781776921324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}