{"product_id":"a-childs-seance-9781772017236","title":"A Child's Seance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Child's Seance\u003c\/em\u003e begins when a brother and sister attempt to contact the spirit of their dead mother.\u003c\/strong\u003e As they play, their shared grief explodes into a big bang of questions about the universe's smeared complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeyman Chan's far-reaching poetry offers a surreal, astral travelogue that bears the ghost brush of classical Chinese portraiture. Its figures pose against a prairie landscape that steels resilience against loss, mental struggles, sexual misfires, and threats of alien abduction. Working across the intimate, the historical, and the cosmic, \u003cem\u003eA Child's Seance\u003c\/em\u003e validates the human experiment and its chaos, asking what the poem and its syntactical palette can catch of our fleeting, all-too-brief lives. It insists that the worlds we intersect, however messy or unreachable, are still all one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781772017236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98","brand":"Weyman Chan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514285711541,"sku":"9781772017236","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781772017236.jpg?v=1791903415","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-childs-seance-9781772017236","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}