{"product_id":"cosmologies-1","title":"Cosmologies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of P. K. Page’s poems, socially conscious work that focuses on our planet and on the beauty of existence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\nShortlisted for the 2003 Griffin Award for Excellence in Poetry, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e is a careful distillation of Canadian poet P.K. Page’s critically acclaimed two-volume \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHidden Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, and it is the first of her collections to be published in the United States. Anchored by a masterful use of metaphor, her poems quote knowingly from Eliot, Thomas, and Robert Graves. As editor Eric Ormsby says in his foreword, this “supreme escape artist of Canadian literature . . . is the shrewdest of observers . . . a citizen not only of the world but of the earth.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n“Elegant, rigorous, fresh,” the Griffin Prize, Judge’s Citation said. “P.K. Page’s work sings with a voice of independent character and maenad conjecture. It is a creature that lives on its own terms and terrain. It is startling, authoritative, and anti-sentimental, able to bear cool as well as passionate gazing at our own species. Her poems are always thinking – each line is thinking, while its six senses remain impeccably alert. Her poems live by wit, wisdom, sass, suspense and a muscular lissome synapse and diction. They are daring in scope, meticulous in accomplishment, and boldly moral – with a lovely flavour of amoral verve! We fall under the charm of her reasoning, of her fecund, fastidious imagination, of her many musics, and of her necessariness to us, her essentialness.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54252932104536,"sku":"9781567922455","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781567922455__6765753f13889.jpg?v=1741134937","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cosmologies-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}