{"product_id":"wyrd-bird-by-claire-marie-stancek-9781632430847","title":"wyrd] bird","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek’s \u003ci\u003ewyrd] bird\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen, a dream journal, a fragmentary notebook, a collection of poems, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary, mythical, and historical figures from Milton’s Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats’s hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading, cross-questioning, and upsetting some of that tradition’s central poetic texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy refusing and confusing dualistic logic, \u003ci\u003ewyrd] bird\u003c\/i\u003e searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips, stubbornly, onto love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471975301356,"sku":"9781632430847","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/fabe5255d2c9546d8f449dada7fa8425.jpg?v=1775692292","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wyrd-bird-by-claire-marie-stancek-9781632430847","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}