{"product_id":"9781770414211","title":"A Generous Latitude: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLenea Grace's debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. \u003ci\u003eA Generous Latitude\u003c\/i\u003e is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, \u003ci\u003eA Generous Latitude\u003c\/i\u003e toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur's hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, \"I'm not smoking and it's not analog, \/ but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979.\" \u003ci\u003eA Generous Latitude\u003c\/i\u003e takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and \"strips the Atlantic bare.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058976211184,"sku":"9781770414211","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770414211_p0.jpg?v=1763706365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770414211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}