{"product_id":"the-kings-touch-tom-sleigh-9781644450772","title":"The King's Touch: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe King's Touch\u003c\/i\u003e collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, \"isn't it true that no matter how long you \/ wear them, masks don't grieve, only faces do?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about the fate of the planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Sleigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644450771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Tom Sleigh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051008356607,"sku":"9781644450772","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ee4e879-9142-462b-a9e9-f8c4323f27f2.jpg?v=1685010543","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-kings-touch-tom-sleigh-9781644450772","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}