{"product_id":"the-magpie-and-the-child-catriona-clutterbuck-9781930630956","title":"The Magpie and the Child","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Magpie and the Child \u003c\/i\u003etells a story of great loss, love, and learning. The volume starts from the days before the poetic journey, in a sort of pre-exploration of events before they were events, moving to and through the death of her child Emily at almost eleven years old from an unsuspected heart condition. The poems speak, lament, and sing among the metaphors and religious resonances that such mourning must inspire. The thieving magpie of the prefatory title poem pecks at its own image in the glass while the poet daubs the hope of intervening blood on the \"trembling lintel of faith.\" The volume is filled with self-examination, suffering, remembered conversations with the living child, and very real ones with the dead, each of which record the steps of the emotional journey. The second half of \u003ci\u003eThe Magpie and the Child \u003c\/i\u003eis an extended sequence taking the form of a fragmented diary, one that captures the pain of loss in a skeptical age yet insists on the ritual compensation of belief. In the rigors of its form, the depth of its despair, and the necessary belief in the meaning of its artistic act, Clutterbuck's poetry carefully and beautifully maintains this very delicate balance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catriona Clutterbuck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1930630956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781930630956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wake Forest University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2021","brand":"Catriona Clutterbuck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043421155583,"sku":"9781930630956","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94e51aa6-1389-4d03-837e-0c878a17e33d.jpg?v=1684967050","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-magpie-and-the-child-catriona-clutterbuck-9781930630956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}