{"product_id":"invisible-world","title":"Invisible World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eInvisible World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Canaday\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780807127766\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLouisiana State Univ Pr\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\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWith \"the clarity \/ of a landscape made of single \/ grains of sand, \" the poems in John Canaday's The Invisible World invite readers on a journey through an exotic land, as the narrator travels for more than a year in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan before returning home to New England. Swept along by poetry alive to paradox, we encounter a world in which the Bible and the Qur'an, Eastern and Western traditions, ancient and modern artifacts, mystical and scientific attitudes, meet on equal footing, where a tape recorder perched on a minaret broadcasts the prerecorded cry of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.\u003cp\u003eIn these poems, the exotic includes not only a world of Bedouin and camels, djinn and ghouls, but also the internal territory of the narrator himself, who alternately feels \"like an ambassador of sorts, \/ albeit penned in tourist class\" and a \"post-imperial naif \/ in metaphorical Bermuda shorts.\" Canaday offers here a complex meditation on the inner and outer nature of journeys and confronts the powerful recognition that the sense of the foreign arises through an inevitable encounter with the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConfident in both lyric and narrative modes, Canaday's poems create a stunning landscape of words, an invisible world of discovery, memory, and sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State Univ Pr","offers":[{"title":"Invisible World | John Canaday | Paperback | 9780807127766 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1642758","offer_id":50707363234050,"sku":"1642758","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51KH78V1C0L.jpg?v=1791695451","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/invisible-world","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}