{"product_id":"9781409000297","title":"Corpus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorpus\u003c\/i\u003e - Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps and the wounds of love and war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqually at ease with scripture (Jacob wrestling the Angel in 'Choreography') and science ('Mapping the Genome'), these poems are a thrilling blend of modern and ancient wisdom, a profound and lyrical exploration of the mysteries of the body:' So the martyrs took the lamb.\/ It tasted rich, steeped in essence\/ Of anchovy. They picked it clean\/ And found within, a goose, its pink\/ Beak in the lamb's mouth like a tongue.' Ranging effortlessly between the physical extremes of death - from putrefaction to purification - and life - drought and flood, hunger and satiation - the poems in \u003ci\u003eCorpus\u003c\/i\u003e speak most movingly of 'living the half-life between two elements', of what it is to be unique and luminously alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174533153008,"sku":"9781409000297","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781409000297_p0.jpg?v=1763721893","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781409000297","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}