{"product_id":"charms-against-lightning-9781556593871","title":"Charms Against Lightning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"That feeling of becoming a new person in a different place, even if it''s an illusion, is intoxicating to me, and always has been. I love writing about places, but only places where I don''t belong.\"—James Arthur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAwakening is the theme of this fiery debut about the \"ghost world\" of shadows and personae. A sense of history, politics, and place is an integrated and integral part of the whole, alive with stirring accounts of travel, intimate moments of solitude, and encounters with the ineffable. Romantic in spirit and contemporary in outlook, James Arthur writes exciting, rhythmical, elastic poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Charms against Lightning\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst meningitis and poisoned milk,\u003cbr\u003eflash floods and heartwreck, against daydreams\u003cbr\u003eAgainst losing your fingers, drinking detergent,\u003cbr\u003eearthquakes, baldness, divorce, against\u003cbr\u003efalling in love with a child\u003cbr\u003eAgainst lupus and lawsuits, lying stranded between nations,\u003cbr\u003eagainst secrets and frostbite, the burring of trains\u003cbr\u003ethat never arrive\u003cbr\u003eAgainst songlessness, your mother''s depression,\u003cbr\u003ethe death of the cedars, Siberian crane\u003cbr\u003eAgainst these talismans against lightning;\u003cbr\u003ethe shutters swing, and clack their yellow teeth;\u003cbr\u003ethe deep sky welters and the windows quiver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Arthur\u003c\/b\u003e''s poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he earned degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Washington. He is a recent recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359611846999,"sku":"9781556593871","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556593871.jpg?v=1754125172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/charms-against-lightning-9781556593871","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}