{"product_id":"trespasser-r-t-smith-9780807120521","title":"Trespasser: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith craggy Celtic metaphysics and perfect linguistic pitch, R. T. Smith evokes the landscape, culture, and history of Ireland and the New World through the eyes and ears of an outsider. Words matter to Smith, and the language of these poems is knotty and precise, blazing into moments of recognition with the elliptical testimony and spare light of everyday objects: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e. . . adze \u003cbr\u003e and hammer, gate\u003cbr\u003e latch, cracked Baleek \u003cbr\u003e and a Claddagh brooch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is this muted voice of perfection, speaking from the simple lines of Shaker furniture, that chills the speaker of \"New Lebanon\" as he reflects upon the religious sect's \"hard bargain \/ with God, their promise \/ to be virtue's monsters.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrespasser\u003c\/i\u003e arcs with rigorous unity of vision from the secular to the heights of spiritual rapture, until the demarcation between world and spirit finally begins to blur. In a parable of the perfection in disorder, \"Before the Breakup\" juxtaposes the heartbreak of parting against the discovery of a bee embalmed in a jar of bramble jam. And \"Passage to Kilronin,\" a meditation on the drowning of a boy from one of the local trawlers, eloquently voices the notion of cosmic kinship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection ends on an eerily pastoral note with the crepuscular, self-composed epitaph of St. Gristle, a holy madman: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI will be love's gallows, \u003cbr\u003e all sap and marrow, \u003cbr\u003e mad lament of shadows \u003cbr\u003e and a mouthful of birds\u003cbr\u003e dying to sing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurely, this book suggests, between world and spirit there is, for those who can see, no demarcation at all. \u003ci\u003eTrespasser \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling, passionate collection, certain to delight and move any reader who has an ear for the music of language played by a virtuoso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. T. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807120529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807120521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 5.72w x 0.55d","brand":"R. T. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419113144575,"sku":"9780807120521","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d46bab9-34cf-4cac-9956-b64c71ab6b11.jpg?v=1761509521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trespasser-r-t-smith-9780807120521","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}