{"product_id":"9780889712225","title":"The Cold Panes of Surfaces","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Cold Panes of Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e is the moving second collection of poems from award-winning author Chris Banks.\u003cp\u003eRooted in the pastoral tradition of Wordsworth, Frost and Wallace Stevens, \u003ci\u003eThe Cold Panes of Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e describes the Southern Ontario landscape of trains, lakes, moose and pine with unflinchingly sharp image and metaphor. In so doing, he brings to it a distinctly modern edge, meditating on \"the rent we are paying to the planet for our waning lives.\" Here, beetles become \"child kamikazes... a wallpaper of yellow-winged flames\" and the planet is a \"Museum of Natural Beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBanks takes imaginative leaps into the worlds of a magician's assistant, a fifteenth-century Japanese poet, and the Muse. Most of all, these poems eloquently describe childhood, loss in all its forms, the vagaries of relationships, and being \"a sullen young man \/ caught in the world's fist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cold Panes of Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable collection, and a fitting follow-up to Banks' award-winning first book \u003ci\u003eBonfires\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033897779440,"sku":"9780889712225","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889712225_p0.jpg?v=1763866627","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889712225","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}