{"product_id":"9781771313605","title":"The Lost Letters","description":"Atmospherically light and stylistically expansive – poems that regard our givens as a gift.  Don McKay's description of The Pearl King and Other Poems, Catherine Greenwood's wonderful first book, also apply to The Lost Letters: 'With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a pearl. . . .'  At the centre of The Lost Letters is a sequence of radically diverse poems based on the story of Heloise and Abelard, truly lovers in a dangerous time, the twelfth century. The raw material is heavy, tension between flesh and spirit being the serious issue carried forward from the twelfth century into the twenty-first. But Greenwood's deft and delicate handling of scenarios of love requited but balked becomes a perceptive reading – extraordinarily inventive and constantly surprising – of contemporary secular society.  The Lost Letters creates a world of wonder tinged with sadness on behalf of so much that goes unnoticed, whether it's a bin of severed sows' ears, a lizard tethered by its tail who severs it by self-amputation, or a down-and-out old schoolmate.","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149969473776,"sku":"9781771313605","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771313605_p0.jpg?v=1763708265","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771313605","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}