{"product_id":"the-most-charming-creatures-poems-paperback","title":"The Most Charming Creatures: Poems - 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\u003eGary Barwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, \u003ci\u003eThe Most Charming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and tenderness. While these poems energize and connect and \"turn the paren- \/ theses inside out so that \/ we mean everything,\" they are also alive to the alluring complicity of language and its duplicity and deceptions. \"This is the way the world ends \/ Not with a bang but \/ while we watch.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA follow-up to the award-winning author's acclaimed selected poems, this new collection continues Barwin's examination of the possibilities of the poem: a celebration, a story, an investigation, a riff, a word machine, a parable, a transformation. But what are the \"most charming creatures\" of the title? In 1862, scientific illustrator Ernst Haeckel termed radiolarians (ancient single-celled organisms with mineral skeletons) \"the most charming creatures,\" but here Barwin turns the microscope around to consider something just as strange and mysterious: language, our culture, and the self. From microorganisms, onion rings, grief, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to beetles, neoliberalism, sandwiches, Martin Luther, and stand-up comedy, he offers: \"it's a miracle that we've survived \/ it's a miracle that we've survived at all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling author of 26 books of fiction and poetry, \u003cb\u003eGary Barwin\u003c\/b\u003e has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, ON.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352017846521,"sku":"9781770416611","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/R0dKTWxHdS9zaWp6OHlvck0zTldDQT09.webp?v=1769805406","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-most-charming-creatures-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}