{"product_id":"9781770562738","title":"The Porcupinity of the Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the \u003cem\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/em\u003e has noted, what makes this work so compelling is 'Barwin’s balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' \u003cem\u003eThe Porcupinity of the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder and the shifting, often perplexing nature of consciousness. His Heisenbergian sensibility honed to a fine edge, the poems in this bright, bold and acutely visual book add a surreptitious intensity and wry maturity to Barwin’s trademark gifts for subtle humour, solemn delight, compassion and invention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Between the freaky, funny filmmaker Guy Maddin and author Gary Barwin, Canada is producing some of the most innovative creative works of our time.' – \u003cem\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135220433136,"sku":"9781770562738","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770562738_p0.jpg?v=1763706530","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770562738","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}