{"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\/products\/instead-it-is-dark-by-cynthia-hogue-9781636280653","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}