{"product_id":"cold-pastoral-by-rebecca-dunham-9781571314789","title":"Cold Pastoral","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled ways—unmasking and examining the spectre of manmade disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Hurricane Katrina. The Flint water crisis. Thousands dead, lives destroyed, and a natural world imperilled by human choices. This is the litany of our time—and these are the events that Rebecca Dunham traces, passionately and brilliantly, in \u003ci\u003eCold Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn poems that incorporate interviews and excerpts from government documents and other sources—poems that adopt the pastoral and elegiac traditions in a landscape where \"I can't see the bugs; I don't hear the birds\"—Dunham finds the intersection between moral witness and shattering art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExperimental and incisive, \u003ci\u003eCold Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection that reveals what poetry can—and, perhaps, should—be, reflecting ourselves and our world back with gorgeous clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596021219564,"sku":"9781571314789","price":46.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/75286eb2ab9957063792ffe919393e3f.jpg?v=1777932109","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/cold-pastoral-by-rebecca-dunham-9781571314789","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}