{"product_id":"the-outer-wards-paperback","title":"The Outer Wards - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSadiqa de Meijer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Outer Wards\u003c\/i\u003e, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty-and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness. \"I was awake. \/ The hour was wrong,\" de Meijer writes, and her poems track, in visceral and tender detail, the distraction, exhaustion, exhilaration, and fear of child-rearing through crisis. For de Meijer, the experience was also a crisis of language, and the struggle to find new terms for her state. Addressed, in part, to a child she calls \"my grievous spectacle, \/ my dearest unpossessable,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Outer Wards\u003c\/i\u003e is everywhere marked by a joy in words-their quick-fire turns, sumptuous sounds, and nursery-rhyme seductions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSadiqa de Meijer's \u003c\/b\u003edebut collection, \u003ci\u003e Leaving Howe Island\u003c\/i\u003e, was a nominee for the 2014 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and for the 2014 Pat Lowther Award. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699186405439,"sku":"9781550655452","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6fcd0d23a0152cf6f96deb1d45bc89e7.webp?v=1765012746","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-outer-wards-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}