{"product_id":"9781800173903","title":"Near-Life Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrike up music! Scope tomorrow’s printless straits!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI slice the tomatoes, saving their skins – their seeds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    freckle the countertop. No ideas but in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo ideas but in things\u003c\/em\u003e – tell me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    about it...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eNear-Life Experience\u003c\/em\u003e are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, \u003cem\u003eNear-Life Experience\u003c\/em\u003e offers a world where understanding is subverted by the day’s distractions and the unexpected shapes of the imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do I relate to this? What does it mean? What’s happening, exactly? Does experience experience me? With descriptive precision and inventiveness, the poet finds humour and panic at the edges of the actual. The poems measure expanding and contracting times, birthdays, seasons, climate breakdown, witnessing the moment and its ‘sheer \/ ongoing changes’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CARCANET PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185072505106,"sku":"9781800173903","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781800173903.jpg?v=1774733416","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781800173903","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}