{"product_id":"9780889228528","title":"Corked","description":"\u003cbr\u003eCatriona Strang expertly “fabricates her own reality” in poems that explore the female condition and respond to Marcel Proust’s \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. In a powerful and rare display of poetic ingenuity, Strang situates classical themes of existentialism, memory, time, and the role of women in two clarifying contexts: the metaphorical mailbox of Proust and the speaker’s own body, as understood in geographical and geological terms.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe need\u003cbr\u003enot gulf\u003cbr\u003edoubt\u003cbr\u003enor gist-pierce\u003cbr\u003eour place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhatever grip\u003cbr\u003eor drib\u003cbr\u003ewe might\u003cbr\u003eor mean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Proust, \/ You’ve been dawning on me. Gradually, by the charm of all your explanations, our lives have come to be constituted through art. We have made several realities, far beyond the reach of terrible conservative eyes, which grow greater, or are illuminated. Consequence really lives thus, I mean all the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019479957744,"sku":"9780889228528","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889228528_p0.jpg?v=1763854296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889228528","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}