{"product_id":"save-as-by-a-frances-johnson-9781922571106","title":"Save As","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Johnston wrote, 'If out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry, what do we make of our quarrels with Canberra?' \u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e works to see these things together: memoir, elegy, politics, and a feeling for earth. Its poems are everywhere complicated—doubled back on themselves—by A. Frances Johnson's excoriating awareness of how 'poetic' language is complicit in the commodification of place: using 'landscape' to furnish a poem with picturesque imagery; with the promise of some lasting beautiful elsewhere—'mea culpa's last egotism: lazy planetary leave-taking'. This is a principled, truthful, fiercely intelligent collection. — Lisa Gorton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn poetry lucid and compelling, \u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e bears clear-eyed witness to the warfare waged against the planet by the captains and footsoldiers of industry. A record of environmental degradation, a tally of mounting human debts, and a catalogue of ghosts, both familial and communal, this collection is an uncompromising vision of our contemporary moment, and a moving elegy for what has been lost, and what is being lost—devastatingly, irretrievably—in the calamitous present. — Bella Li\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427737583852,"sku":"9781922571106","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571106.jpg?v=1774767365","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/save-as-by-a-frances-johnson-9781922571106","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}