{"product_id":"wickerwork-9781962770248","title":"Wickerwork","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivifying poetry of nature and the spirit — explore a mystical world of hawkmoths and elvers, skylarks and salamanders, with the shimmering grace of Gary Snyder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lehnert makes nature’s wonders shine. His poems expand our view of life – and its inexpressible reason for being.” – \u003ci\u003eDer Sonntag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWickerwork\u003c\/i\u003e traffics in details that might have otherwise gone  unnoticed: the far sides of fishes, red jellyfish fraying on a tide, the  way a hazel tree learns from the falling of snow how to scatter her  pollen. This bilingual edition is the first comprehensive  collection of Christian Lehnert’s work to appear in English, translated  by the celebrated translator and scholar, Richard Sieburth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders can dive down into the depths of Lehnert and Sieburth’s  primordial works: where slime, dirt, membranes, clay, and clouds give  way to stretching summer shadows under beech trees, the clatter of a  bird lifting into sky. Ever attentive to the rattle of a rhythm passing  through language, Lehnert sees in the nimble scurrying of a salamander  “tiny bolts of lightning driven through the dark.” He writes with  singular grace of a sycamore’s sap, “the blood scabbing the wounds of  its roots.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its intense, philosophical relationship to the physical world, \u003ci\u003eWickerwork\u003c\/i\u003e will open readers’s eyes to their own natural environment. Lehnert  notes that certain trees have the power to remind us that the growth and  protean spirit of things is never in doubt. Here, growth feels  possible, necessary, a fact as simple as it is divine.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043400221015,"sku":"9781962770248","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781962770248.jpg?v=1750958085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wickerwork-9781962770248","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}