{"product_id":"9781550654127","title":"Leaving the Island","description":"St. Kilda is a barren, rocky archipelago 60 km off the west coast of Scotland. In 1930, harsh conditions led the islands’ remaining 36 inhabitants to relocate to the mainland. Left behind were seabirds and a population of feral sheep. In \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Island\u003c\/i\u003e, her first poetry collection, Talya Rubin enters the isolated lives of those last Kildareans, and probes the “desert places”—to use Frost’s phrase—in herself. Written during a series of extended trips abroad, including stays in Australia and Greece, Rubin’s poems return, again and again, to a psychological landscape where “mud and rock \/ and sea and salt and oily smell \/ of fish and fowl is all, all.” Rife with exacting wordplay and frank self-reckonings,\u003ci\u003e Leaving the Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about endings and what remains when we start over.","brand":"Véhicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183356166384,"sku":"9781550654127","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550654127_p0.jpg?v=1763753691","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550654127","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}