{"product_id":"book-of-smaller-9781773852614","title":"Book of Smaller","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten while at home full-time with two small children under five, \u003cem\u003e the book of smaller\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very small spaces. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach poem is a still moment, a memory, a burst of observation, suspended outside time and held up to the light as the world whirls around it. Some are intimate, some are public, all are grounded personal, domestic space. With trademark intelligence and daring, rob mclennan uses radical structures to express the concision and disorientation, jumps in sense and mood, the collapse of time and duration, the shattering joy and powerful fears, of full-person, full-time parenthood. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith an unparalleled knowledge of modern poetry and poetic evolution, mclennan breaks the sentence into its most vital pieces, then breaks it further, smashes punctuation out of the expected into spaces of risk and uncertainty, pushing conventions to the edge and then beyond to challenge what writing is, and what a reader can be. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Calgary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773852614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.36d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rob McLennan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42334415061173,"sku":"9781773852614","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a9b3d7f6-2ba6-4e07-a417-95fd73dbb543.jpg?v=1660626939","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/book-of-smaller-9781773852614","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}