{"product_id":"9780702235566","title":"The Flower, the Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Winner of the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a goblet of lichen\u003cbr\u003efor the sun to feed from\u003cbr\u003eand a single wild iris\u003cbr\u003ewith a mind so old\u003cbr\u003ethat it came before invention\u003cbr\u003eIts condition is perfect\u003cbr\u003eIt rests perfectly between\u003cbr\u003eour hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– from “Wild Iris”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMTC Cronin's poems - expansive and intimate, dynamic and reflective - blaze with electrifying vision. Writing with honesty and wit, grace, and the courage to strip away illusions, she explores surfaces, interiors, myths and mysteries through a kaleidoscope of flowers - dandelions, impatiens, roses, azaleas, flowers real and imagined. Suffused with awe and wonder, these poems unveil 'urgently, now, before us, the flower, the thing'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Queensland Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009953251568,"sku":"9780702235566","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780702235566_p0.jpg?v=1763621729","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780702235566","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}