{"product_id":"9781773101798","title":"Poisonous If Eaten Raw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother’s death, Faber untethers herself from the mother she thinks she knows with wild analogies: depicting her mother variously as King Lear’s Kent, a Camperdown elm, a black-capped chickadee, Neil Peart, Pope Innocent X, and a funnel spider. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile embodying the passionate relationship between mother and daughter, Faber’s poems also expose the thorn in the flesh — the inability of mother and daughter to give each other what they most want to give. Endlessly discovered, yet ultimately unknowable, the poet’s mother is complex, mystifying, and unwavering: courageous in her decision to leave all that she knew behind; bewildering in her fidelity to a damaging marriage; steadfast in her devotion to a God who is at once adamant and the source of ephemeral beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"icehouse poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419468734813,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781773101798_FC_12acef31-5092-4284-b113-f9ecb31ccfb8.jpg?v=1785929936","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781773101798","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}