{"product_id":"9781877578809","title":"Cloudboy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloudboy\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep-mulling, richly senstive account of a mother's ajustments to the needs of an autistic child. This prize-winning suite of poems grows out of extremes of love and frustration, as the poet introduces a bright, unpredictable, markedly individual boy to the rigid, often airless routines of the school system. Any empathetic parent knows the fears and anxieties of sending a young child into the world of other children, their casual cruelties and dreamy naïveté. Each concern is exponentially increased when a child’s educational and emotional needs set them apart. Cloudboy writes his own version of Genesis; he invents a new language; he sketches intricate maps; he reads Aristotle and develops an obsession with Dr Who; he interrupts; he sways; his \"fists come clenched and swinging.\" To onlookers, Cloudboy seems troubled, trouble. Cirrus, cumulus, arcus, stratus: cloud forms speak to Harvey of the phases of the mother–child bond; the mood-swings and leaps of her child’s mind; the mutability of personality; the attraction and evaporation of human kindness; presence and absence; reverie and forgetfulness; the intensity and yet bittersweet transience of early childhood. With a limber, gorgeously metamorphic sense of sculptural and sonic aspects of poetic form, this book is a tender and detailed atlas of a child’s imaginative potential. Yet one of the most remarkable gifts it reveals for us readers is Cloudmother’s own finely calibrated perceptions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Otago University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043496018160,"sku":"9781877578809","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781877578809_p0.jpg?v=1763603107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781877578809","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}