{"product_id":"trickster-9781609382841","title":"Trickster","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrickster\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a crank call to the reader: “How was I to know \/ You were thin, your garden \/ Was covered in smoke \/ That you sat in your house \/ Coughing?” Over the course of these beautiful and eerily accomplished poems, Potts’s reader is taken on a journey that is at once time-scarred and resolutely contemporary, earthy and haunted, moving from estrangement to reconciliation. Amidst a deepening sense of crisis, the Trickster of Potts’s imagination emerges as aggressor, prankster, victim, and healer, forging resilient music from the afflictions of the mind’s “infested nest”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrickster\u003c\/em\u003e veers quickly from meditation and narrative to song, plunging the reader into a liminal world of dreams, archaic lyrics, and fables, populated with figures ranging from the Hawk and Worm, the Cat and Dove, to Cold and Death. It is a wilderness in which all things are alive: “a blade of grass \/ equal to the suffering \/ of a lifetime”. Yet it is also a place of menace, “where a fly with one wing, keeps \/ tipping over in the grass, where \/ the ants will have him”. Whether or not the Trickster reaches utopia, he reckons with the world that is achievable on earth and in words, “those dreams of woods \/ relayed to you”.","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041654473047,"sku":"9781609382841","price":14.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781609382841.jpg?v=1750951167","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trickster-9781609382841","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}