{"product_id":"time-and-chance-9781885586681","title":"Time and Chance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[W]itness the sharp, wry play of a dazzling mind.\"\u003cspan\u003e—COLE SWENSEN, author of \u003ci\u003eAnd And And\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMajestic, playful, brainy, heart-wrenching, Katharine Coles’s tenth collection of poems at once celebrates and elegizes: her teachers and parents—both dead at ninety—who still issue advice (some good, some not) from beyond the grave; the creatures who pass through her canyon quarter-acre; the moon as it rises and sets; even her Levi''s shrink-to-fits, when she realizes she’ll never wear out another pair. The  poems \"guide us with their empathy, sometimes yoked with a wry irony, around the physics of interactions.\" [John Kinsella] More than anything, this is a book about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003epresence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: haunted by the past yet firmly rooted in the also-haunting now, Coles keeps spinning, finding herself in words, in her body, in time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turtle Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043109994839,"sku":"9781885586681","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781885586681.jpg?v=1750957040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-and-chance-9781885586681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}