{"product_id":"eskatos-and-the-stretched-necks-of-stillness-9781632064158","title":"Eskatos and the Stretched Necks of Stillness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ewith movements from us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003efrom the mortal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eto the already crossed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethey who sing our songs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethey who remember our lives\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 186 verses, Mats Söderlund catalogues the natural phenomena of Sweden''s primeval northern woodlands. The poem leads its reader down overgrown paths, beyond the flickering of leaves and lichen, to meet \"the dead\": a troop of scattered fates that populate the Nordic landscape in the forms of a speaking fog, a tinkling drizzle, a faltering wind. It is this swarm of spectral destinies that the poem sets out to praise, and to mourn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShining of rain and gnawing of sorrow, cast from metal, snow, charcoal dust, surgical nails, and ice cold waters, Söderlund''s poetry is the fragile tether to a world and past that threatens to slip through our fingers, and which no generation who seeks to survive can disclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515918278999,"sku":"9781632064158","price":13.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eskatos-and-the-stretched-necks-of-stillness-9781632064158","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}