{"product_id":"9781555974657","title":"Waterlight: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The \u003ci\u003eTree House\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt isn't mine to give.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can't coax this bird to my hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat knows the depth of the river\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eyet sings of it on land.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —from \"The Dipper\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as \"the leading Scottish poet of her generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaterlight\u003c\/i\u003e at last makes Jamie's work available to American readers. Her poetry—rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist's field guide —confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054953971952,"sku":"9781555974657","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555974657_p0.jpg?v=1763785503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555974657","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}