{"product_id":"squandermania","title":"Squandermania","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon Share’s latest collection, \u003cem\u003eSquandermania\u003c\/em\u003e, is a book of poems that are slightly death-haunted and studded with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology. It also revives a luminous, if complex, domesticity – not something most men take as their subject. Its focus is the frenzied energy and unreal depression of living in a world at war with terror, and ultimately with itself. Here the paralysis of long-standing grief and fear combine with strange energy of trying to get by from day to day: “If these are the woods, \/ I'm not out of them yet.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eThere are poems about the intimate household terrors of marital relations and questions raised by children about what happens in the world, and others woven from a tapestry of literary interactions with sources that range from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Bacon's essay On Building to the “rotten kid theorem.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eProverbs cease to reassure as the poet monitors news about global warning, war, and other self-inflicted disasters. What William James called the \"trail of the human serpent\" that runs over everything has at least (and perhaps finally) brought us to a world in which, as Share describes it, \"anti-depressants make certain people violently depressed; \/ testing a safer system causes reactors to explode; \/ more freeways create more traffic; \/ the power grid dims, powerless; \/ [and] antibiotics make stronger germs.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eThese poems of conscience and imagination record the struggle to continue living in a \"glitterbound microcosm\" amidst the impulses of maniacal squandering and ceaseless destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224018276696,"sku":"9781844712946","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781844712946_df22985a-5d26-4c3c-9db4-176ce4e75f67.jpg?v=1764999937","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/squandermania","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}