{"product_id":"9781946482129","title":"Republic of Mercy : Poems by Sharon Wang","description":"In Sharon Wang's thrilling and corporeal geometry, touch dominates, if often in its `aftermarks': singes, whiffs, folds of fabric, echoing gestures between bodies. With generous language and quicksilver intelligence, Wang expresses `a hunger so large it stops the mouth.' Her poems describe what is `hard and brilliant,' the spaces between objects, and what's left in the wake of losses. \"Despite its attunement both to elegy and to witness, the mode is praise: `He loved the world. He loved it suddenly \/ and without reason.' . . . As the poet works to understand, `If in fact it wasn't possible to build \/ the world anew,' she does build--extravagantly, judiciously, lovingly. The result is a book of radiant integrity.\" - from the judges' citation for the Kundiman Poetry Prize.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368262054261,"sku":"9781946482129","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781946482129.jpg?v=1763548982","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781946482129","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}