{"product_id":"glass-float-paperback","title":"Glass Float - 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\u003eJane Munro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGriffin Award-winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWaves carried a glass float--designed to hold up a fishing net--across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone's breath is inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGlass Float\u003c\/i\u003e, her seventh collection, award-winning poet Jane Munro considers the widening of horizons that border and shape our lives, the familiarity and mystery of conscious experience, and the deepening awareness that comes with a dedicated practice such as yoga. This book is about connections: mind and body; self and others; physical and metaphysical; art and nature; west and east, north and south.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \"Convexities,\" the book's opening poem, Munro quotes the grandfather who taught her to paint: \"art is suggestion; art is not representation.\" No concavities, he said. Only the \"little hummocks\" that her pencil outlined as she did contour drawings. Munro's deft suggestion, her tracing of convexities, conveys underlying complexities, not by explication, but by looking with eyes and heart open to where mysteries \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c\/i\u003e surface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"US\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebubbles \u003cbr\u003esays the baby, looking \u003cbr\u003eout the window at snowflakes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe old man tears up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etwo \u003cbr\u003echaracteristics \u003cbr\u003eof the human animal-- \u003cbr\u003eto speak, to weep\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eboth \u003cbr\u003emove me \u003cbr\u003eare you moved \u003cbr\u003eby words--by tears \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Munro\u003c\/b\u003e's sixth poetry collection \u003ci\u003eBlue Sonoma\u003c\/i\u003e (Brick Books) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. A member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko's Dogs, she has been a professor of Creative Writing at several universities in BC, taught many informal writing workshops, and read her poetry to audiences across Canada. For more than twenty years, she has studied (in Canada and in India) and practiced Iyengar Yoga. In 2012, she moved back to Vancouver--where she grew up and raised her children--after spending twenty years living rurally on the coast of Vancouver Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 83\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289438892281,"sku":"9781771315241","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/jqignpNomb9781771315241.webp?v=1776263782","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/glass-float-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}