{"product_id":"common-place-9781552453469","title":"Common Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommon Place\u003c\/i\u003e explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit, Sarah Pinder names our most private and public moments of seeing and being seen. With considered, quiet urgency, this poem witnesses our ambiguous, aching present and looks towards what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Watch for the places where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– Jennifer Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eAim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eCommon Place\u003c\/i\u003e feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tattered record keeping, \u003ci\u003eCommon Place\u003c\/i\u003e is friend of the abject landscape, “home of the lesser, lowercase subject.” Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– Sue Sinclair, author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven’s Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Pinder\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eCutting Room\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has been included in magazines including \u003ci\u003eGeist, Arc\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Toronto, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585845199191,"sku":"9781552453469","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781552453469.jpg?v=1756489476","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/common-place-9781552453469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}