{"product_id":"9781770560888","title":"Hagiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eJen Currin’s acclaimed debut collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Sleep of Four Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in her new collection, \u003cem\u003eHagiography\u003c\/em\u003e, see her trademark wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new territory. These poems push life’s barely hidden strangeness into the light, and present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event. In \u003cem\u003eHagiography\u003c\/em\u003e, mind and sense and the world they move through are interwoven to create a mysterious, familiar, vexing and continuously fascinating human drama.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere are no saints in \u003cem\u003eHagiography\u003c\/em\u003e, but there are many curious characters looking for spiritual truth. \u003cem\u003eHagiography\u003c\/em\u003e is populated by seekers: ghosts, spiders, sisters, pilgrims, children, tigers, therapists, witches, grandfathers and birds. \u003cem\u003eHagiography\u003c\/em\u003e starts with death and ends with birth. In between, life after life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eHagiography\u003c\/em\u003e is a delight for the reader’s heart and mind – hagios, meaning sacred, plus graphein, to write. One lovely poem after another guides us through what holds us like a light.’ – Robin Blaser\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Currin’s language is not so much surreal as it is devoted to the strangeness of what really happens to bodies and selves in the world ... this book is a conversion narrative ... it is a story of how we believe language can change and how we believe change can speak.’ – Aaron McCollough, author of \u003cem\u003eLittle Ease and Double Venus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175705755888,"sku":"9781770560888","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770560888_p0.jpg?v=1763706514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770560888","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}