{"product_id":"9780864926210","title":"Guesswork","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Winner, City of Hamilton Arts Award, Established Artist, Writing\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Beginning with an autobiographical account of the mind, Jeffery Donaldson\u0026amp;#39;s marvellous new collection moves from personal history to national history, concluding with \u0026amp;#34;Province House,\u0026amp;#34; where the ghost of Sir John A. Macdonald has the last word on metaphor.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;In his fourth collection, Donaldson moves deftly between the incisive short lyric and the extended meditation, oscillating between detachment and engagement. In \u0026amp;#34;Torso,\u0026amp;#34; Donaldson considers the headless sculpture of Apollo, both chiselled rock and the changeling child of multiple observers. In a series of poems written from the vantage point of a hockey puck, the elements of a hockey game \u0026amp;#8212; the face-off, defensemen, play-by-play, referee, linesmen, clock, and net minder \u0026amp;#8212; twist in the fascinating funhouse mirror in the depths of Donaldson\u0026amp;#39;s personal Platonic cave.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Donaldson\u0026amp;#39;s poems reveal a mind at once conversant with the literary deities and the subtleties of the everyday. Profoundly graceful in its recognition of the poetic heritage of others, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Guesswork\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; confirms that Donaldson is a poet whose craftsmanship, whose supple syntax and unerring sense of rhythm, are anything but guesswork.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65420101222749,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9780864926210","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}