{"product_id":"limbo-the-fourth-canticle-9781917617833","title":"Limbo - the fourth canticle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLimbo - The Fourth Canticle\u003c\/em\u003e by John Kinsella is a long poem in thirty-four cantos, each accompanied by a sub-canto and a subscript, structured as a sustained meditation on suspension: ecological, political, spiritual, and creative. Positioning itself as a coda to Kinsella's earlier Divine Comedy, the work inhabits limbo not as a theological abstraction but as a condition of the present, a state of insufficient action and ongoing complicity, mapped onto the wheatbelt of Western Australia and its surrounding political realities. Illegal land-clearing, mining extraction, colonial inheritance, and the failures of capitalist liberal conscience run through the cantos alongside close attention to birdlife, reptiles, insects, and the seasonal rhythms of a specific place. Throughout, Kinsella refuses consolation or resolution, maintaining a voice that is self-implicating, politically alert, and formally undeceived about poetry's limits and its necessity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broken Sleep Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917617833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d","brand":"John Kinsella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801339162805,"sku":"9781917617833","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/limbo-the-fourth-canticle-9781917617833","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}