{"product_id":"lent-9781771668118","title":"Lent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd if the world were a way out? A river? A door? And if this was not a rhetorical question?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLent \u003c\/i\u003efrom award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis, and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrotesque and tedious, baroque and banal intertwine in the first three sections. Meticulous depictions of spectacle run into the repetition of daily domestic life: trying to explain time to children, day trips to the planetarium and strangers' warnings, intersperse depictions of Mary Shelley recalling the monster, the inner life of a Seventeenth Century portrait sitter, Ted Hughes' second wife telling her story to the dead Sylvia Plath, Rusalski—souls of drowned innocents in the lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final, title section, explores religious faith; how belief is itself a repetition, a slow accumulation over time, just like love or forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLent \u003c\/i\u003eis an exquisite work of our era, asking us to contemplate what it means to live in a broken world—and why we still find it beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Attention is a quality in short supply these days; the poems in \u003cem\u003eLent \u003c\/em\u003eare a kind of benediction, a practice requiring careful attention to what the world offers.” —Steven W. Beattie, That Shakespearean Rag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kate Cayley grapples with overwhelming themes with elegance and precision... Linked by the concluding titular poem, \u003cem\u003eLent \u003c\/em\u003eis a brilliant read that answers every question it asks.” —Zoe Shaw, \u003cem\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cayley’s poems are almost structured as acts of unwrapping, or as working a particular kind of puzzle, each line inching closer towards a particular solution, discovery or revelation.” —rob mclennan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:Part 1: InteriorAttentionIce SheetThe Dream of BodiesObjectsFalling Stone WallLadybug, BratislavaToy RabbitWalkingBlue HousesHauntingPart 2. Art MonstersAssia Wevill Considers Herself:1.\tOf Sylvia and Turning on the Gas2.\tShe Works in Advertising3.\tThe Sixties4.\tAbortion5.\tTarot Cards6.\tShe Imagines Sylvia Trying to Write7.\tShe Reads Sylvia’s Poetry8.\tIn Which Sylvia Has a Vision of the Animals as She Turns on the GasArtDutch Masters:1.\tStill Life with Seashells, 16982.\tStill Life with Fruit in a Wan-Li Bowl, 16643.\tAdriana van Ijlen, 16164.\tChurch of Saint Cecilia, Cologne, about 1670RusalkiBlue View Series (Matthew Wong 1984-2019):1.\t12:30 am, 20182.\tTracks in the Blue Forest, 20183.\tLook, the Moon, 20194.\tStairway, 20195.\tThe Waiting Room, 20196.\tThe Old World, 2019GlassesJean GrenierMary Shelley at the End of Her Life, Recalling the MonsterThe Light in VermeerPart 3: Sixty HarvestsOf Rats and FloodsMorecambe BeachTrying to Explain Time to ChildrenThe Boys Among the TreesPlanetarium Distancing Red Foot Tortoise, Science CentreHagsSixty HarvestsA ConversationMishima and the Park BenchSemi-lockdownPart 4. LentLent","brand":"Book*hug","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535424790871,"sku":"9781771668118","price":14.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781771668118.jpg?v=1731898101","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lent-9781771668118","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}