{"product_id":"swan-what-shores-1","title":"Swan, What Shores?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Colorado Book Award;\u003cbr\u003e\nWinner of the Willa Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\n As heard on Public Radio International's The Writer's Almanac!\u003cbr\u003e\n Full of music and evocative word play, Veronica Patterson's \u003cb\u003eSwan, What Shores?\u003c\/b\u003e offers alluring poems varied in form and inventive in approach. In language that is both precise and lyrical, Patterson's work, like much of the best poetry, plumbs the human condition with depth, wit, and, above all, compassion.\u003cbr\u003e\n The poems offer fine surprises, from the lyrical litany of \"The Riddle of My Want\" (\"the stride of your eyes \/ a summering of skin\") to the unusual elegy \"Three Photographs Not of My Father\" to the mysteries embodied in \"Where Are My Swans?\": \"All movement in their dreams is theirs \/ that glide-without-haste, for what core of the universe \/ has to hurry?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSwan, What Shores?\u003c\/b\u003e marks the blossoming of a major poetic talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Veronica Lee Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615505441148,"sku":"9780814766859","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780814766859_2af2f536-3afe-4691-ac83-b246091ce801.jpg?v=1726664229","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/swan-what-shores-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}