{"product_id":"9780374716356","title":"A Scattering and Anniversary: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Award–winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou lived at such speed that the ballpoint script \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003erunning aslant and fading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eacross the faded blue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ecan scarcely keep up. Many words are illegible. I miss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eimportant steps. Your movements blur. I want to follow, but can’t.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Scattering \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid’s wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. First published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year, this moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences. The first was written during a holiday a few months before Gane’s death with the knowledge that the end was approaching; the second recalls her last courageous weeks, spent in a hospice in London; the third continues the exploration of bereavement from a variety of perspectives; and the fourth addresses her directly, celebrating her life, personality, and achievements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaired for the first time with \u003ci\u003eAnniversary\u003c\/i\u003e, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane’s death, \u003ci\u003eA Scattering and Anniversary \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the poet into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved. A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the “weighty emptinesses” that remain after bereavement change us, \u003ci\u003eA Scattering and Anniversary \u003c\/i\u003eshows us what it means to love, lose, and—forever changed—continue on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121463902448,"sku":"9780374716356","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374716356_p0.jpg?v=1769917316","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374716356","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}