{"product_id":"9781773101088","title":"Soft Power","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Watch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;So drink\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;As the fanged stoat from the rabbit\u0026amp;#39;s nape\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;As though from a flagon of river water\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;Shaken with ancestral ash\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;As if it isn\u0026amp;#39;t knowledge you seek\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;But some osmotic soul-food\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;To be filled up with blurs\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;That might later resolve themselves\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;Into memories\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;To return to where you really live\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;With changes in your blood\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Soft Power\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet where \u0026amp;#34;generations hence \/ Inactivists will bathe under a sun made safe \/ By the collapse of oil-can economics.\u0026amp;#34;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Traversing badlands, sandhills, prairies, suburbia, Miami, London, Dublin, Paris, and beyond, Cole\u0026amp;#39;s voice revels in questions of travel while resonating with the \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;unheimlich\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; \u0026amp;#34;Canadalienation\u0026amp;#34; of his expatriate existence. Whether bog surfing, gallery hopping, bug hunting, or meditating on the \u0026amp;#34;strange genre\u0026amp;#34; of national anthems, the poems in Cole\u0026amp;#39;s long-awaited follow-up collection to his critically acclaimed \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Questions in Bed\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; exist in a searching exchange with the world, both entering and being entered by it.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"icehouse poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419539611997,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781773101088","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}