{"product_id":"domestic-recusals-9781990496479","title":"Domestic Recusals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are poems unlike any that you have read before. Simon Constam considers moments, thoughts, insights that other poets, to their and our detriment, commonly ignore. Moments that look deeply at how we grow old together with our lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"But these things are not what now I treasure.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow it is the way your step makes uncertain contact with the earth, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e the way your dress catches at the hip before it falls to the floor;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eit is how your energy gives out in love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is even the way you no longer care if you have been seen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eawkward, naked, walking out of the shower, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003enot a bit of your seventy years decorated for the view of others.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- from the poem, To a Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Simon Constam's poetry: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So I'm familiar with many of the things your poems plangently evoke... Some of the poems remind me, in the best way, of poems by Yehuda Amichai and Nelly Sachs.... From time to time, also, I was reminded of some of the later poems of R. S. Thomas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Hart is a much-honoured poet. He is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the\u003cem\u003e University of Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ace of Swords Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990496479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Simon Constam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087252451509,"sku":"9781990496479","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ba14bca0-daea-4131-af43-d78e882fd508.jpg?v=1714456617","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/domestic-recusals-9781990496479","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}