{"product_id":"9780986533877","title":"Sailing to Babylon","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. SAILING TO BABYLON is the first full-length collection from James Pollock. These are poems of exploration and discovery of the self and the universal. Closer to home, there is the schoolboy fascination with the English teacher; the grandmother's old Bible; a Dantean-style extended account of a hiking adventure with a young son, fully realized in terza rima. Further out in time and geography, Pollock muses on figures from Canadian history—explorers Henry Hudson, David Thompson, and John Franklin; pioneering literary theorist Northrop Frye; and pianist Glenn Gould. Each of these quests has accompanying trials or triumphs. This is a collection full of surprises and pleasures, with a treasure-chest mapped for discovery in \"an image of the world \/ made small enough to hold inside the mind.\" A book that has the power to take you \"to the place \/ exactly where you always meant to go.\"\u003cp\u003e\"The metaphysics of the pause, the transition, the image: James Pollock has the Tranströmer instinct, but he plays the music in his very own key. These are haunting, deeply digested, nearly always surprising poems\"—Sven Birkerts\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Able Muse Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035748679920,"sku":"9780986533877","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986533877_p0.jpg?v=1763897299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986533877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}