{"product_id":"vermeers-light-poems-1996-2006-9780889225657","title":"Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways--secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, \u003cem\u003eVermeer's Light\u003c\/em\u003e, much of it written while Bowering was \"in office\" as Canada's first poet laureate, constitutes an extraordinary gesture of generosity from a poet to his readership who has so honoured him. Its alphabet series \u003cem\u003eA, You're Adorable\u003c\/em\u003e, by \"Ellen Field,\" a pseudonym Bowering often used in the nineties; \u003cem\u003eImaginary Poems for AMB\u003c\/em\u003e, addressed to his late wife Angela; \u003cem\u003eHe Is Not\u003c\/em\u003e, a micro-translation of Shelley's \u003cem\u003eAdonais; Q\u0026amp;A\u003c\/em\u003e, which dares to take on the most fundamental questions of the human condition with levelheaded honesty and wit--the list of revelations and the pyrotechnics of Bowering's craft presented here are spellbinding. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the greatest astonishment about this celebratory collection from a poet at the height of his powers is that it contains all eight variations of \"Grandfather,\" Bowering's most anthologized poem to date, set into an essay, \u003cem\u003eRewriting My Grandfather\u003c\/em\u003e, like eight jewels in a crown at the end of the book. It is here that the poet presents his readers with a voyage of discovery; that the buried treasure of his invisible but adamantine craft is to be found; and the gift of entrance into how George Bowering creates his work is revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889225657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"George Bowering","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774093422773,"sku":"9780889225657","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/vermeers-light-poems-1996-2006-9780889225657","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}