{"product_id":"aporia-9781885586285","title":"Aporia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHave a talk with a ghost or a duck or contest the destroyers of the land, listen to the roos and slow worms, marvel and question and rage and love the language with John Kinsella's \u003ci\u003eAporia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAporia\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection\u003cbr\u003esearching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. From\u003cbr\u003ethe death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and often\u003cbr\u003edistressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a sense\u003cbr\u003eof ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, we\u003cbr\u003eundertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.\u003cbr\u003eThis tension is embodied in the figure of the poet H?lderlin, and also through\u003cbr\u003emoments in Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella which\u003cbr\u003ehe constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whether\u003cbr\u003econversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poems\u003cbr\u003econcerned with transformative relationships with and within the \"natural world.\"\u003cbr\u003eKangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creatures\u003cbr\u003efrom around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through to\u003cbr\u003eautonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamics\u003cbr\u003eof life and death.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885586285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152","brand":"John Kinsella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351319208117,"sku":"9781885586285","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dd6f7314-40a6-4998-8843-da25e52370dc.jpg?v=1746540992","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/aporia-9781885586285","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}