{"product_id":"jim-dine-a-beautiful-day-by-jim-dine-9783958298910","title":"Jim Dine: A Beautiful Day","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim Dine's poems are the voices between his paintings, the questions between his drawings, the whispers and shouts between his sculptures: an unceasing, probing flow that augments and energises his visual work. Dine writes through a process of collage, arranging and re-arranging fragments as they come to him, noting them on scraps of paper, on the studio wall, even (a favourite medium) on the sick bags of aeroplanes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Day\u003c\/em\u003e presents 17 poems; some are recent pieces written during the intensity of corona quarantine, others are older creations he has now rediscovered and re-shaped, as a sculptor returns to a work after many years with a fresh eye and hand. As always, Dine's poetry is densely autobiographical and grapples with the polarities of experience: with delight and melancholy, with criticism and celebration, with nostalgia (\"Childhood mood \/ The soul \/ complete and elegant \/ Constructed of wishes \/ And clouds\"), rage (\"I ran into him at the airport, \/ 'I hope you die a miserable death \/ You fat fascist fuck'\"), and, inevitably, the passing of time: \"The magic falls, \/ Years go by, \/ Hitting the window \/ They get used up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424428769516,"sku":"9783958298910","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958298910.jpg?v=1774768494","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jim-dine-a-beautiful-day-by-jim-dine-9783958298910","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}