{"product_id":"9781926829302","title":"Hymn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImprovising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes - from Belfast to the clear-cuts of Vancouver Island, from the subterranean heat of Jules Verne's Iceland to the ventriloquism of the Alberta Rockies' echoing eastern slopes - John Barton documents the path of the male body in an increasingly unstable, supposedly tolerant contemporary world. \u003cem\u003eHymn\u003c\/em\u003e stokes the fires of homoerotic romantic love with its polar extremes of intimacy and solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...though he files all forethought of the unknown life now going\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eon without him, a life he confuses with his own, his life promiscuous\u003cbr\u003e   however rearranged his surfaces or clean his drawers, the unclarifying\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edistractions of the body portentous in his downfall, the downfall\u003cbr\u003e   of his own body a matter of time, but thinking of the man who left\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe accidental man come between them, the man he may yet become\u003cbr\u003e   it is impossible for him not to sing them unwashed hymns of praise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- from \"Hymn\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It would be easy to describe \u003cem\u003eHymn\u003c\/em\u003e as a collection of dream recitations, of flights on magic carpets and crashes through bewitched mirrors-except for the fact that Barton is an eyes-wide-open, no-prisoners kind of guy. He misses nothing, not even when he's asleep. This is not dreamy poetry (anybody can do that) but poetry that asks us to dream in the bald daylight, shows us how to look lovingly at both the squalor and the garden paths beneath our feet.\" - R.M. Vaughan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175919337712,"sku":"9781926829302","price":10.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926829302_p0.jpg?v=1763635633","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926829302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}