{"product_id":"the-safety-of-edges-9780578438351","title":"The Safety of Edges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e ponders liminal times and spaces, tracing the borders between now and then, here and there, childhood and the grown poet. The edge of anything is both a limit and a possibility, an encounter either safe or risky. Pruiksma's poems seek what it is one awakens to in the half light between darkness and dawn, an emptiness that is not empty, a \"saying in the silence,\" \"a song we can't see,\" or whatever in movement might remain still. Pondering a world waiting to be whole, they return repeatedly to home. Theirs is a quiet voice of the hints that the past, like the things that inhabit it, emanates, of evanescences, of questioning and questing, of the mystery of ordinary moments: playing cards, drawing, opening a door, building sheds, seeing neighbors. Not only doors or walls, not only voices, all things leave traces.  There is nothing \"to dull the emptying darkness beyond even the darkness I could see,\" Pruiksma writes in a poem that appears early in his book.  Yet he finds, near the end of it, \"a darkness not dark, an emptiness not empty.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of a compassionate discreteness, a generous simplicity, in which the hours of life are not lost but found, sometimes, \"all of it here in our hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Weltner, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Light of the Sun Become Sea \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eUnbecoming Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marrowstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578438351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d","brand":"Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638881743004,"sku":"9780578438351","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_edc96ee1-bdce-435e-a92a-da1b03b61faa.jpg?v=1603848437","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-safety-of-edges-9780578438351","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}