{"product_id":"dear-muses-by-simon-west-9781925780468","title":"Dear Muses?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these essays, Simon West examines our metaphors for reaching back after inspiration. Rather than cultural rubble ripe for plunder, he celebrates our waterways in imagining that heritage—rivers that nourish the red gums across floodplains. In doing so, he ranges widely, bridging Classical and European interests with a celebration of Australian poets, while asking, always, where is Parnassus now?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDoes it make sense to invoke the Muses today? Few of us believe our poems will be better for praying to stola-clad women sitting on a mountain in Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear Muses?\u003c\/em\u003e asks the reader to consider the Muse as something more—a vehicle for acknowledging cultural legacies that radiate out from the past and into contemporary Australia. In addressing the Muses, we talk to that inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462805242092,"sku":"9781925780468","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780468-dear-muses.jpg?v=1775023598","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dear-muses-by-simon-west-9781925780468","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}