{"product_id":"a-thin-fire-runs-through-me-9781773102252","title":"A Thin Fire Runs Through Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach line a strip of skin torn from me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA thin fire runs through me\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Trainor interrogates what it means to exist, to navigate the quotidian amidst the constant drip-feed of political and ecological disasters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over an intense nine-month period in 2016 and 2017 amidst the stresses of heartbreak, depression, and the progression of a new love, Trainor's exquisite sequence of short poems offers meditations on different hexagrams in the \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eBook of Changes\u003c\/i\u003e. Incorporating fragments from reportage on current events, Jewish liturgy, and lyric poetics, she latches her readers to the present while acknowledging the inescapable presence of the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA thin fire runs through me\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with Trainor's own personal circumstance while contemporaneously documenting the tenor of our times, suggesting that \"We peer into other lives; we absorb words, headlines, violent events. We see and we don't see. These scraps are unintegrated, unintegratable, yet we carry them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773102252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.18lbs","brand":"Kim Trainor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737843962037,"sku":"9781773102252","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a02f1fc7-efa1-4d1b-bc59-ad70cbc490d4.jpg?v=1676386083","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-thin-fire-runs-through-me-9781773102252","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}