{"product_id":"loving-the-dying-9781496234681","title":"Loving the Dying","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoving the Dying\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying, considering what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These are poems of uncertainty rather than certainty. The more overtly biographical ones end with as many questions as they start with, and there is often sympathy for the outsider or the marginalized voice. Varying in tone and complexity, Verwey’s poems focus on the tension between escapism and reality, truth and delusion (for individuals and societies), and the need to face death if we are to care for the aged and learn to understand the process of dying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As in his first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eIn a Language That You Know\u003c\/i\u003e, Verwey continues his effort to understand the successes and failures of the South African post-apartheid journe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a brilliant, contemplative, passionate collection. Rich with ‘un-’ words—unreceiving, unanswered, undone—it leads us into the unknowable, invents a new country. A poetry of the afterwards, the collection reaches past ‘unconfronted shadows’ and ‘old acrimonies’ and ultimately toward love. No simple tenderness, this love, but schooled in a long knowing, finally earning the coming of ‘something almost imperceptible, unforced, unbidden’ that reveals ‘the wilder wonder of all.’”—Gabeba Baderoon, author of \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Silences\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe History of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Lit a Fire\u003cbr\u003e Homecoming\u003cbr\u003e The Mind Has a Phone of Its Own\u003cbr\u003e A Boy Like You\u003cbr\u003e Water\u003cbr\u003e I Was Fifteen\u003cbr\u003e Guitar\u003cbr\u003e Ours\u003cbr\u003e Wave\u003cbr\u003e Deveer\u003cbr\u003e The Dead Trees Sing\u003cbr\u003e Even the Damage Kid Is Glum\u003cbr\u003e With the Government Official\u003cbr\u003e The Duration\u003cbr\u003e The Estate in Shambles, a Melodrama\u003cbr\u003e Strange Kingdoms\u003cbr\u003e The Dead Girlfriends\u003cbr\u003e The Sky-Bedazzled, Dark-Bedraggled\u003cbr\u003e The Large River\u003cbr\u003e The Girls of All Hours\u003cbr\u003e Survivors\u003cbr\u003e Trumpet\u003cbr\u003e As I Still Was\u003cbr\u003e Loving the Dying\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409243840855,"sku":"9781496234681","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496234681.jpg?v=1730506117","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/loving-the-dying-9781496234681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}