{"product_id":"soft-power-9781773101088","title":"Soft Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo drink\u003cbr\u003eAs the fanged stoat from the rabbit's nape\u003cbr\u003eAs though from a flagon of river water\u003cbr\u003eShaken with ancestral ash\u003cbr\u003eAs if it isn't knowledge you seek\u003cbr\u003eBut some osmotic soul-food\u003cbr\u003eTo be filled up with blurs\u003cbr\u003eThat might later resolve themselves\u003cbr\u003eInto memories\u003cbr\u003eTo return to where you really live\u003cbr\u003eWith changes in your blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in \u003ci\u003eSoft Power\u003c\/i\u003e are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet where \"generations hence \/ Inactivists will bathe under a sun made safe \/ By the collapse of oil-can economics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraversing badlands, sandhills, prairies, suburbia, Miami, London, Dublin, Paris, and beyond, Cole's voice revels in questions of travel while resonating with the \u003ci\u003eunheimlich\u003c\/i\u003e \"Canadalienation\" of his expatriate existence. Whether bog surfing, gallery hopping, bug hunting, or meditating on the \"strange genre\" of national anthems, the poems in Cole's long-awaited follow-up collection to his critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eQuestions in Bed\u003c\/i\u003e exist in a searching exchange with the world, both entering and being entered by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773101088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Stewart Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452243275957,"sku":"9781773101088","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_649bc131-fdfb-4c55-bb9e-1866be2c6136.jpg?v=1776826368","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/soft-power-9781773101088","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}