{"product_id":"white-lily-1","title":"White Lily","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy are my problems \/ always the worst? \/\/ And why \/ because I wrote that \/ do you think I don’t believe it?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Lily\u003c\/em\u003e is John Emil Vincent’s love note to Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedevilled by white lilies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder their spell the poet dives into parable, fable, received wisdom, compact discs, and ruined utopias like a gleeful truant child. The white lily is ever present - its meanings, messages, and seductive scent. The collection begins with a meditation on Anderson’s song “White Lily” and its treatment of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-hour film \u003cem\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/em\u003e. It goes on to ponder whether, if we take them in earnest, our mistakes come to serve as the surest sign of seriousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Vincent’s poems trouble what’s exact and exacting, always with the white lily as companion, a promise of rebirth delivered in funeral tones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54465534460248,"sku":"9780228023777","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228023777.jpg?v=1777902340","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/white-lily-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}