{"product_id":"a-gathered-distance-poems-9780995371842","title":"A Gathered Distance: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Gathered Distance\u003c\/em\u003e is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as \"a most subtle orchestration of loss\". The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark's work affirms the value of \"lyric resistance\", poetry's mysterious way of making sense of things: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing.\" - \u003cem\u003eMark Tredinnick.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the title poem: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"...Be a garden in a city, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitious \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest half\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e father all your orphan fears; hold them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Near, as a father might...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Birdfish Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780995371842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.50h x 6.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Mark Tredinnick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36646854164636,"sku":"9780995371842","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a8ab4553-4bee-4294-99b6-93cd2b313db0.jpg?v=1603865396","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-gathered-distance-poems-9780995371842","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}