{"product_id":"paper-crown-by-heather-christle-9781472158680","title":"Paper Crown","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her’ - Kaveh Akbar, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e‘This is a stunning book’ - Jericho Brown\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e‘A striking celebration of risk and beauty’ - Kit Fan, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e is Heather Christle’s first new collection of poems in over a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout these exuberant poems, Christle conjures moments when the world's events - a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinners with friends - alight themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith tenderness and verse, honesty and curiosity, \u003ci\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to look up from its pages and recognise that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMistake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor years I have seen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003edead animals on the highway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eand grieved for them\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eonly to realize they are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003enot dead animals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ethey are t-shirts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eor bits of blown tire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eand I have found\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003emyself with this\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eexcess of grief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have made with\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eno object to let\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eit spill over and\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have not known\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ewhere to put it or\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ekeep it and then today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI thought \u003ci\u003eI know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can give it to you\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431855505644,"sku":"9781472158680","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472158680.jpg?v=1774557114","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/paper-crown-by-heather-christle-9781472158680","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}