{"product_id":"9781770901032","title":"Winter Cranes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Asian folklore cranes symbolize longevity, immortality, and good fortune. In \u003ccite\u003eWinter Cranes\u003c\/cite\u003e, his third collection, award–winning poet Chris Banks conjures these birds when he sees herons near his home towards the end of a long and difficult winter.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFor the poet, cranes as a dominant image represent the gaps that exist between what we see and what we feel. His poems explore the impermanence of our modern lives — how our identities are shaped by the past and the present, memory and experience, the physical and the metaphysical. \u003ccite\u003eWinter Cranes\u003c\/cite\u003e shows Banks to be an uncompromising poet determined to understand his experience of a world constantly changing around him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131301445872,"sku":"9781770901032","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770901032_p0.jpg?v=1763707151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770901032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}