{"product_id":"concrete-and-wild-carrot","title":"Concrete and Wild Carrot","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eConcrete and Wild Carrot\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMargaret Avison\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781894078245\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBrick Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Margaret Avison's new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her slightest subjects ? beloved Toronto parks with their population of oaks, firs, squirrels, dogs, kids, even ants, and the minutest sighs of her contemporary urban soundscape ? all have their being within an immense composition that calls and hauls us to a largeness, a category-breaking ?always unthinkable? beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e?Words have their life too, won?t\/ compact into a theorem, ? Avison says, and this is certainly true of hers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo myself everywhere: \u003cbr\u003eCry out, ?Break!? Break \u003cbr\u003eall our securities, and break out! \u003cbr\u003eExplore only the ranges \u003cbr\u003ebeyond our mastering. Take on \u003cbr\u003ethe inexorable demands made by \u003cbr\u003ea norm of unpremeditated excellence! \u003c\/p\u003efrom ?Alternatives to Riots but all Citizens Must Play? \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcrete and Wild Carrot\u003c\/em\u003e is Margaret Avison's sixth book of poems, her first with Brick Books ? though we now distribute her Lancelot Press books. She is one of Canada's most respected writers, still at the top of her form in a career that stretches back to the 1940s, and during which she has gained three honorary degrees and two Governor General's Awards for Poetry (for \u003cem\u003eWinter Sun\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Time\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Concrete and Wild Carrot | Margaret Avison | Paperback | 9781894078245 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1675561","offer_id":50794291462402,"sku":"1675561","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51KDYFWSHWL.jpg?v=1792354434","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/concrete-and-wild-carrot","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}