{"product_id":"9781903039632","title":"The Ship of Birth","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Ship of Birth\u003c\/i\u003e records a father's responses in the time immediately before and after the birth of his child.  Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a ship of death, so this ship of birth contains what is significant to the child: the wonder and trepidation of the parents, the nature of the soul, the future growth of the child.  Greg Delanty's poems draw on his experiences in American and Irish cultures, using the traditional verse structures of seventeenth-century religious poets along with open modern colloquial forms to evoke the subtle interconnections of the past and future. Without sentimentality or self-indulgence, Delanty acknowledges the dark and difficult reality that the child faces, while affirming the sustaining continuity of life.\u003cp\u003eThe Coronation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour head settles into the pelvic butterfly\u003cbr\u003eof your Ma. Perhaps it's here the soul penetrates\u003cbr\u003eyour potentate's body as you slowly pry\u003cbr\u003eyour way out of your watery, burgeoning state.\u003cbr\u003eYou make, at best, a willing but much-pressed\u003cbr\u003esubject and servant of your loyal queenmother,\u003cbr\u003ewhat with your tantrums giving her small rest,\u003cbr\u003ewaking her at all hours; and every other\u003cbr\u003eminute ordering her to sit on the throne.\u003cbr\u003eYou've grown large and despotic, a parody\u003cbr\u003eof a mad medieval king who is prone\u003cbr\u003eto great and unpredictable cruelty,\u003cbr\u003eand who now, if we look at Your Highness upside down,\u003cbr\u003ewears our unsettled kingdom's Pelvic Crown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Coronation\" published in \u003ci\u003eThe Ship of Birth\u003c\/i\u003e by Greg Delanty.  Copyright © 2007 by Greg Delanty All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052439486704,"sku":"9781903039632","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781903039632_p0.jpg?v=1763612186","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781903039632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}