{"product_id":"the-book-of-falling-by-david-mccooey-9780645536973","title":"The Book of Falling","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Falling\u003c\/em\u003e circles around a thematic focus of falling—falling in love, falling from grace, and exploring fallen worlds in an age marked by calamity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo fall is to be human. We fall in love, fall asleep, and fall from grace. And in this epoch that we have called the Anthropocene, we are witnessing nothing less than the fall of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary collection, the fifth by the prize-winning poet David McCooey, covers the full tragicomic spectrum of falling—from pratfalls to tragic demises, from accident-prone parents to ruinous celebrities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin its unifying thematic focus, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Falling\u003c\/em\u003e is tonally and formally diverse, attending with great artistry to the calamities and absurdities of history and the contemporary world. The collection comprises satires and elegies, inventive poetic autofictions and biofictions, and innovative photopoems, employing found photos and photographs by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection that welcomes its readers, even as it plunges them into new ways of understanding the beautiful, fallen worlds that we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363017572588,"sku":"9780645536973","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22815303482417.jpg?v=1772912658","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-book-of-falling-by-david-mccooey-9780645536973","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}