{"product_id":"crocus","title":"Crocus","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether\u003cbr\u003e\nAligned with the mechanism\u003cbr\u003e\nwhereby the spirit is borne aloft\u003cbr\u003e\nthrough song comes again\u003cbr\u003e\nthe question: whether. And not soothed\u003cbr\u003e\nso much as opened by the boy\u003cbr\u003e\nsoprano’s Sanctus, what moves\u003cbr\u003e\nin the mind as the throat constricts\u003cbr\u003e\nin sympathy, one note peeled\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom the last, fine as paper slipped\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom a garlic bulb, veined,\u003cbr\u003e\ntranslucent, is whether—as if\u003cbr\u003e\nwound through the spiraling\u003cbr\u003e\namplitude, purpled, fretted,\u003cbr\u003e\none voice suspended\u003cbr\u003e\nin concentration of prayer or terror\u003cbr\u003e\nwills itself above faltering,\u003cbr\u003e\nmore perfect since time must\u003cbr\u003e\nsoon break it. And made it.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhether and by whatever impossible\u003cbr\u003e\narrangement of stars, harmonies,\u003cbr\u003e\ncorrespondences through which\u003cbr\u003e\nthe music finds the spirit and like\u003cbr\u003e\na blade slits and releases,\u003cbr\u003e\ncirculates the question\u003cbr\u003e\nthrough the phrase, the delicate\u003cbr\u003e\nengine—as if it matters: the song\u003cbr\u003e\nrises, everything goes with it.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe poems in Crocus take as their starting points the interior universes created by myth, art, and\u003cbr\u003e\nmemory, and through the exploration of these terrains create new ways of understanding the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Karin Gottshall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615654863228,"sku":"9780823227303","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780823227303_a0a03fa9-6bc1-4578-8205-13b7e9cc0992.jpg?v=1725962575","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/crocus","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}