{"product_id":"the-fountain-of-bandages-nicholas-mason-browne-9798218893576","title":"The Fountain of Bandages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Song-text\" is not an attractive term, but it has its uses. Poem and poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave, in my experience, come to be such pestilent and unpopular words\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat it can be a relief sometimes to reach out for some neutral alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday the prospect of any kind of poetry at all in the long term can seem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evaporous at best. That prospect, I would venture to say, is as daunting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enow as it has ever been during my lifetime. Is there no way forward? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have been trying, particularly in recent years, to come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto terms with what might well be the one viable option left to us - an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoption that is, sad to say, as humbling as it is unlikely and onerous. It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einvolves retracing our steps in a decisive, perhaps irrevocable, way. There\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare moments when the future resides somewhere in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy own best hope is that this gathering of poems, as diverse or motley as it might\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseem, is suggestive of some other, more modest, but predominant, idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does, after all, have its own larger story to tell - that of a traveler in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe margins of a volatile, diminished, and stricken time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Mason-Browne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218893576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tiny Wings Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Nicholas Mason-Browne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48874604036351,"sku":"9798218893576","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fountain-of-bandages-nicholas-mason-browne-9798218893576","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}