{"product_id":"9781479753772","title":"Birth, Death and InBetween","description":"\u003cp\u003eBirth, Death \u0026amp; InBetween came to Ms Corwin as a title when friends began to die.  Her generation was ‘starting to go’.      \u003cbr\u003e     “A collection comes about at a turning point; one is grieved, one wonders at the disappearance, the invisibility, the untimeliness, what was before, what may come after.  No longer a matter of death and dying, but of birth, death and the in between.  The speechlessness turns into a need to speak.\u003cbr\u003e     You don’t put together a collection of poetry overnight.  There is no arbitrary subject.  There are threads.  A collection is a matter of emphasis, accentuation and priority.  One’s generation begins to go; the whole of the sidewalk full of people coming at you will be gone in a hundred years, not a person coming at you left.  If that is not a source of wonderment, what is?”\u003cbr\u003e     Birth, Death \u0026amp; InBetween is a collection of 300 some odd poems written over a period of 40 years observing, examining, questioning, accepting the plain facts and the elusive nuances.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131156644080,"sku":"9781479753772","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479753772_p0.jpg?v=1763617483","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479753772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}