{"product_id":"9781552452639","title":"The Lease","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Gerard Lampert Award (2013)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's \u003ci\u003eThe Lease\u003c\/i\u003e explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it. Equal parts character study, cultural documentary, and coming-of-age narrative, Henderson's poems make it clear that however we may try to stay apart from them, the stubborn and often unflattering realities of masculine culture persist, not just in isolated, dangerous environments like this, but in our very idea of what work is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo mark survives this place: you too will yield to unmemory. Give everything you are in three-day pieces. Watch the gypsy iron move, follow its commands.\u003cbr\u003eTend the rusted steel like a shepherd.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMathew Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Toronto, Ontario, writes about the prairies, and teaches at Humber College. \u003ci\u003eThe Lease\u003c\/i\u003e is his first collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035526709488,"sku":"9781552452639","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552452639_p0.jpg?v=1763753021","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552452639","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}