{"title":"Cynthia Hogue","description":"\u003cp\u003eCynthia Hogue’s work invites readers into a rich exploration of language and experience, weaving elements of poetry and critical reflection. Her writing often delves into themes of perception and the subtle interplay between light and shadow, inviting a contemplative engagement with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFitting within the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e sphere, Hogue’s books offer a blend of lyrical depth and thoughtful inquiry, appealing to those who appreciate literature that challenges and expands conventional boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"distantly-by-cynthia-hogue-9781632431011","title":"Distantly","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA bilingual collection of poems that offers a surreal perspective of urban experience.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard’s lyrical poetry is a sequence of lush, taut cityscapes. Known for her elliptical and materially grounded poetics, Brossard creates an intimate series of poems drawn loosely from urban experience. The poems comprise an evocative distillation of postmodern urban life with a sharp sense of cultural and gendered histories of violence and beauty and struggles for survival and intimacy. The poems capture the emotional and ecological surroundings of each city and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cities in Brossard’s poems feel surreal and in them dwell survivors of “misfortunes,” living in urban landscapes with their “gleaming debris” and “bridges, ghats, \/ rivers in a time of peace and torture.” These poems gesture toward a transmuted social context and toward a quest “to meet the horizon the day after the horizon.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430606520556,"sku":"9781632431011","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431011.jpg?v=1774558978"},{"product_id":"instead-it-is-dark-by-cynthia-hogue-9781636280653","title":"instead, it is dark","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing her husband's massive heart attack, Cynthia Hogue began writing poems based on dreams and memories that he, born during WWII in occupied France, had as a child growing up in a time of vast postwar food shortages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHogue embarked on a quest to discover if there were more such memories in her extended family in France. When asked, family members told her never-before-shared tales of parents who were POWs, collaborators, Resistance fighters, and one most vulnerable—of a hidden child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHogue spent years researching the lives of civilians during war, work crystallized in her tenth collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003einstead, it is dark\u003c\/em\u003e. The personal is alchemized as Hogue weaves history and present day in poems that explore how there, here, an individual voice in the stark language of lyric poetry, speaks a complex truth and casts a laser light on violence, resilience, survival, and—the heart of this collection—love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470868005100,"sku":"9781636280653","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781636280653-instead-it-is-dark.jpg?v=1775229541"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/cynthia-hogue.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}