{"product_id":"9781910251065","title":"God in Winter","description":"Irish poet Pádraig J. Daly's latest collection of poems is set in a challenging place, \"our unGodded world\", as one poem calls it, \"our infected kingdom\", another. It is a place of darkness and heaviness of the soul, where things are left unfinished or in ruins and the sun goes down \"protesting\".\u003cp\u003eBut it is also a place that is somehow redeemed, a place made, if only momentarily, radiant by the perception of a greater design, by the vision of \"a yellow ecstasy of leaves\" in the street, and, most of all, by the guileless love and affection of the young whose laughter \"lights \/ Every cobwebbed corner \/ Of our hearts\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in his previous books, God in Winter includes a number of Daly's versions of early Irish poems, remarkable for their simplicity and lightness of touch. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when what might be called 'poetry of faith' goes against the prevailing fashion, Daly makes a distinctive 'good news' out of accumulated small perceptions that between them offer solace and seek to counterbalance the troubles of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dedalus Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033392300272,"sku":"9781910251065","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910251065_p0.jpg?v=1763626648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910251065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}