{"product_id":"a-line-of-tiny-zeros-in-the-fabric-essays-on-the-poetry-of-maurice-scully-9781848617292","title":"A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric: Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaurice Scully is not a poet for whom experience is shrouded in words. He doesn't begin with complicated patterns of sound that disentangle into conventional forms, or a neat trope that encapsulates a truth that oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed. He begins outside the job, the task ahead of him and the Tipp-Ex on the table. The poem, as it writes itself before our eyes, is not a particularly desirable consumable; it is not a hoarded memory or a discovered analogy worked up into universal truth. Objects and events are left alone to retain their ordinariness. This is not high-octane performance; the poet is not a magus overwhelming us with rich metaphor and heavy consonants, tricksy rhymes and deft analogies. It's instead more like the work of a verbal mime artist: nothing permanent is involved except what's conjured up; making poems is work as play. While poems that seek to impress their skill can lose touch with that aim - be overtaken by ambition, rivalry or simply the need to put bread on the table with a new USP -, differently, here, the self-deprecating humour undercuts pretension. The formula is low-energy and sustainable, a manner of proceeding that doesn't exhaust the available means, that leaves its readers a decent breathing space. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(from the Introduction by J.C.C. Mays)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848617292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d","brand":"Kenneth Keating","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36669740286108,"sku":"9781848617292","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_aae269f0-5b73-4aad-a0e1-13189028258a.jpg?v=1603920925","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-line-of-tiny-zeros-in-the-fabric-essays-on-the-poetry-of-maurice-scully-9781848617292","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}