{"product_id":"controlled-burn-by-a-frances-johnson-9781923099708","title":"Controlled Burn","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eControlled Burn\u003c\/em\u003e is an antipastoral collection with a difference. Poems closely and compassionately situate woman at the centre of interconnected legacies of colonial, economic, domestic, and military violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImages of fire, heat, and ecological degradation thread through free-verse, localist poems such as 'The Woman Who Ran the Farm', 'Aqua Nullius', and 'Petroleum', chronicling devastating impacts. Elsewhere, poems such as 'Painted Weather' and the ekphrastic villanelle 'The Hay Wain's Cry', foreground disconnects between high culture and climate change activism. Institutional art brings solace but may be a lame raft, clung to at our peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is rounded off by poems offering blistering satires of a techno-feudalist world; metapoetic poems such as 'Password' and 'The Sentence' portray the slow violence of online fora and erosions of the rule of law, which differently undermine what it means to be human on a shared planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson's cautionary threnodies muse on environmental depletion, colonial dispossession, and personal loss. These poems deftly criticise enduring theme-park notions of the natural in spheres poetic, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362542010604,"sku":"9781923099708","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4940cdea64c727f96adc76c27ffd9e71.jpg?v=1772935336","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/controlled-burn-by-a-frances-johnson-9781923099708","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}