{"product_id":"9780773586840","title":"A Lovely Gutting","description":"A Lovely Gutting echoes with the music of traditional nature poetry, but its romantic style is ripped by rawness. These poems - enraged and erotic, tormented and tender - swirl around the pain of personal loss, ebbing and surging like the North Atlantic.   Durnford pictures a Newfoundland not found in postcards. Her verse roams an island only half-wild, a ramshackle world of crumbling outports and post-industrial landscapes. In one town, the site of a former US Air Force base, stands a crumbling theatre of \"piss-stained crushed velvet seats,\" the ghost of Mae West still lingering. The ocean no longer spits up cod but the view is strangely sublime.  A startling collection from a talented new voice in Canadian poetry, A Lovely Gutting splits open the guts of grief. It is an unflinching meditation on the loss of a culture and a father and on the struggle to preserve and honour what remains.","brand":"MQUP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067040448752,"sku":"9780773586840","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780773586840_p0.jpg?v=1763660558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780773586840","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}