{"product_id":"9781448139910","title":"All One Breath","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘There are lines in \u003ci\u003eAll One Breath\u003c\/i\u003e for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful recognition. And yet it is also part of his genius to be ever alert to beauty, too.’ - Sebastian Barry, a\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this absorbing, brilliant new collection – his first since \u003ci\u003eBlack Cat Bone\u003c\/i\u003e – John Burnside examines our shared experience of this mortal world: how we are ‘all one breath’ and – with that breath – how we must strive towards the harmony of \u003ci\u003echoir\u003c\/i\u003e. Recognising that our attitudes to other creatures – human and non-human – cause too much damage and hurt, that ‘we’ve been going at this for years: \/ a steady delete \/ of anything that tells us what we are’, these poems celebrate the fleeting, charged moments where, through measured and gracious encounters with other lives, we find our true selves, and bring some brief, insubstantial goodness and beauty into being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe presents the world in a series of still lifes, in \u003ci\u003etableaux vivants\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003etableaux morts\u003c\/i\u003e, in laboratory tests, anatomy lessons, in a \u003ci\u003eSpiegelkabinett\u003c\/i\u003e where the reflections in the mirrors, distorted as they seem, reveal buried truths. All the images are in some sense self-portraits: all are, in some way, elegies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the finest and most celebrated lyric poets at work today, John Burnside is a master of the moment – when the frames of our film seem to slow and stop and a life slips through the gap in between – and each poem here is a perfect, uncanny hymn to humanity, set down ‘to tell the lives of others’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143056638192,"sku":"9781448139910","price":13.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448139910_p0.jpg?v=1763827942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448139910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}