{"product_id":"9780856464188","title":"Local Habitation","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThis sequence of poems in three voices introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. A man and two women explore their memories in conversational poems which, in their combination of lyric and narrative, form a novel contribution to poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe story is of an abruptly ended first love affair, an encounter and marriage with another, the joy of birth, the mourning for the infant’s death and its aftermath. The voices of the protagonists, rooted in their local habitations, weave in and out of the speech and consciousness of each of them with all the nuances, pleasures and regrets of hindsight and its shifts in recollection.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePeter Dale is renowned for his translations from French (Corbière, Laforgue, Valéry and Villon) and Italian (a complete terza rima English version of Dante’s \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e). His new and selected poems, \u003ci\u003eEdge to Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1997 and was followed by \u003ci\u003eUnder the Breath\u003c\/i\u003e in 2002. He now lives in Cardiff.","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008547406064,"sku":"9780856464188","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856464188_p0.jpg?v=1763827045","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856464188","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}