{"product_id":"9781550176018","title":"Birds, Metals, Stones \u0026 Rain","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe crows pick at the waste on the asphalt.\u003cbr\u003eThe men push jingling shopping carts. Or stand and mimic life in a prison yard. The wild white swan is dead. Where I caught\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003etrout as a child, no trout swim now. The drives and crescents gouge ravines, make creeks disappear. Where wild baby fish run, they run the gauntlet of penned fish. They are eaten alive . . .\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Nest of the Swan's Bones\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell Thornton's latest collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eBirds, Metals, Stones and Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, explores powerful, primary human relationships through images of two worlds: the natural and the urban industrial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimple grass is the iron of an invisible forging within nature that involves the human creative consciousness. A scavenger alley crow is the universal creative spirit in brutal primordial disguise. A murderously violent father and son are integrated into a single new man who walks \"bright as a song in the air.\" A young daughter flings up her arms to seagulls that \"collect up the world, opening it like a door.\" An infant son fights the \"anger in him ... the death ... with the heaven in living flailing hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely personal, \u003ci\u003eBirds, Metals, Stones and Rain\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how essential human identity reinitiates human consciousness in a participatory universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Russell Thornton writes some of the most skillfully crafted lyrics in Canada.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chris Banks, winner of the Jack Chalmers Poetry Award\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harbour Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016892694768,"sku":"9781550176018","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550176018_p0.jpg?v=1763752203","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550176018","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}