{"product_id":"openbound-poems-of-relation-9780228029311","title":"Openbound: Poems of Relation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe trouble with honesty, it has no \/ final answers, leaves you in the cranny \/ where nothing left unknown meets finding out.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe puzzles of poetry and marriage are these: How to hold on to what you also release? How to protect love when other loves are put between? In this collection of sixty-nine \"fifteeners\" - sonnet-like constellations of five tercets - Jeffery Donaldson explores the outcomes of both questions over the course of a life in verse and a loving thirty-one-year open marriage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems orbit around two readings that Donaldson and his wife chose for their wedding: a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke about two people protecting one another's solitude; and a scene from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e in which the prince is told, \"You are responsible for your rose.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eopenbound\u003c\/i\u003e turns toward open marriage itself - its risks, its revelations, its misunderstandings, its wounds under cultural scrutiny - the work reveals itself foremost as a book of love poems, continuing Donaldson's long devotion to a metaphoric both\/and poetics capacious enough to hold loving and freedom in the same breath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228029311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88","brand":"Jeffery Donaldson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53195267932341,"sku":"9780228029311","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780228029311.jpg?v=1788273601","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/openbound-poems-of-relation-9780228029311","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}