{"product_id":"the-quiet-in-me-patrick-lane-9781550179811","title":"The Quiet in Me: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies--the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river--ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, the poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet in Me\u003c\/em\u003e are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is \"a museum for what's gone\" and a heart is \"the sound of the wind seething,\" there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: \"the song of the falling water and wild birds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering--to come back to yourself \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playing in paradoxes--\"empty marrow bones with their strings of red ants\"--these poems cultivate dualisms: intimacy and realism, vulnerability and the roughness of youth, a scar that is a father's teaching, a blade that is a sigh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom one of Canada's most lyric writers comes a book steeped in the wisdom of the natural world. Told by an eye that never ceases to observe and a heart that is willing to make itself known--to invite others into its warmth and wilderness--this collection transposes leaf to leaf, stone to stone, reminding us that water will always return to water and so will we.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Lane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550179810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550179811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harbour Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/09\/2023","brand":"Patrick Lane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057566904575,"sku":"9781550179811","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_752f5a7b-87f4-4c7b-a374-274b7f6bebfd.jpg?v=1685047722","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-quiet-in-me-patrick-lane-9781550179811","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}