{"product_id":"9781407072616","title":"Dammtor","description":"\u003cp\u003eDammtor is the old city gate and now the centre of ground transport for the great port of Hamburg. In James Sheard's second collection it is a 'station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light' - a hub for the damaged and deracinated. These precise, wounded poems draw the reader through this desolate landscape - through sexual longing, sexual violence, bereavement and the beginning of hope through the birth of a son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDammtor\u003c\/i\u003e restlessly narrates the condition of maleness, looking for truth and music in a voice which is both urgent and unadorned. The poems are spoken in solitary places - late-night stations, hotel lobbies, car rides and empty woodland - but they are addressed to the living, the missing, the dead and the just-born. Personal and political narratives leak into the spaces of the poems to form a strange light which has something of the hallucinatory clarity of translations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe voice might be by turn elegaic, vicious, obsessive or bewildered as it explores its topic, but it is accompanied by an eye which will not - or, perhaps, cannot - blink. Finding tenderness amid brutality, \u003ci\u003eDammtor\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly accomplished and remarkable collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182251131120,"sku":"9781407072616","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781407072616_p0.jpg?v=1763718381","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781407072616","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}