{"product_id":"9781800174795","title":"Heirloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow the noise in my head grows and grows,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esplinters into phantoms and shapes,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003egraceless muses for her cot-mobile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow I terror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations of women, developing monologues, lyrics and narrative poems which enable us to see how past dysfunction, tyranny and terror structure the shapes of womens lives, and what they hand down to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUneasy inheritances are just the starting point for this debuts remarkable meditations: Should the stories of the past be told? Do they bring redemption or ruin? What are the costs of saying what happened? Beguiling and cathartic, Catherine-Esther Cowies powerful, formally inventive poems reckon with the past even as they elegise and celebrate her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CARCANET PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51430014091538,"sku":"9781800174795","price":26.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781800174795.jpg?v=1774736503","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781800174795","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}