{"product_id":"aporia-paperback-4","title":"Aporia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHave a talk with a ghost or a duck or contest the destroyers of the land, listen to the roos and slow worms, marvel and question and rage and love the language with John Kinsella's \u003ci\u003eAporia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAporia\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection\u003cbr\u003esearching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. From\u003cbr\u003ethe death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and often\u003cbr\u003edistressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a sense\u003cbr\u003eof ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, we\u003cbr\u003eundertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.\u003cbr\u003eThis tension is embodied in the figure of the poet Hölderlin, and also through\u003cbr\u003emoments in Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella which\u003cbr\u003ehe constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whether\u003cbr\u003econversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poems\u003cbr\u003econcerned with transformative relationships with and within the \"natural world.\"\u003cbr\u003eKangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creatures\u003cbr\u003efrom around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through to\u003cbr\u003eautonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamics\u003cbr\u003eof life and death.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent volumes of poetry include \u003ci\u003eThe Darkest Pastoral: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e with an introduction by Marjorie Perloff (W.W. Norton, 2025), and the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Uncollected Animals: Poems for Our Nonhuman Kin\u003c\/i\u003e (Turtle Point Press, 2025). His recent poetry book with Kwame Dawes is \u003ci\u003eMortality\u003c\/i\u003e (Peepal Tree, 2024). His three volumes of collected poems have appeared in Australia (UWA Publishing). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University; an Affiliated Scholar with Kenyon College; and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.8 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354306265337,"sku":"9781885586285","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VqAPN3kB8L9781885586285_62ed87c9-bcf5-44f8-ba35-a5979257f847.webp?v=1769833618","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/aporia-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}