{"product_id":"crying-of-small-motors-9798888385951","title":"Crying of Small Motors","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Craig Brandis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough portraits of working class life and meditations on strange, even comedic aspects of personal tragedy, Crying of Small Motors follows the poet's search for a poetics of devotional wildness, for language that balances sorrow, absurdity and optimism. Brandis's voice is lyric, narrative and spare. His poems are acts of restless defamiliarization: a voracious sea lion he encountered while rowing is like a familial unkindness carried to the grave; a wounded veteran is like a fermata in a wheelchair. He approaches his large subjects by way of small gestures. As reviewer John Wall Barger wrote, \"we trust the poet and follow him into increasingly strange, Tranströmer-like spaces: above the small print \/ grasses, a horse's \/ double field \/ of vision folds \/ the country \/ lengthwise.\" The arc of the book follows the poet's struggle to fashion something useful, like a new utensil, from the grief and tragic beauty found in lifes' difficult places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46382824784023,"sku":"9798888385951","price":2910.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798888385951.webp?v=1768777062","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crying-of-small-motors-9798888385951","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}