{"product_id":"waking-to-snow-robert-maclean-9784907359331","title":"Waking to Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems that gaze and listen: What is stillness? Can you hold emptiness? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaking to Snow\u003c\/em\u003e tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto. The poems are arranged roughly chronologically, in four sections, following the rhythms of the seasons, of Zen practice and \u003cem\u003esesshin \u003c\/em\u003eretreats, along with poems about brief returns to Canada to visit aging parents, childhood memories, and academic and married life. Throughout, many poems attempt to decipher 'the lost languages' of nature: rice-seedlings, snails, chickadees, flowers, cicadas, heron, crickets, a bush warbler, an abandoned kitten, stars, trees, weather, wind, snow. At the very heart of the book is 'Still', a stunningly powerful sequence of eighteen poems describing the anguish of a stillbirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert MacLean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 4907359330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9784907359331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Isobar Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d","brand":"Robert MacLean","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943837237503,"sku":"9784907359331","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_cc687039-bad2-4c98-a326-a4b1bc625a1a.jpg?v=1681500326","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waking-to-snow-robert-maclean-9784907359331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}