{"product_id":"soft-power-9781773101088","title":"Soft Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stewart Cole\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo drink\u003cbr\u003eAs the fanged stoat from the rabbit's nape\u003cbr\u003eAs though from a flagon of river water\u003cbr\u003eShaken with ancestral ash\u003cbr\u003eAs if it isn't knowledge you seek\u003cbr\u003eBut some osmotic soul-food\u003cbr\u003eTo be filled up with blurs\u003cbr\u003eThat might later resolve themselves\u003cbr\u003eInto memories\u003cbr\u003eTo return to where you really live\u003cbr\u003eWith changes in your blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in \u003ci\u003eSoft Power\u003c\/i\u003e are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet where \"generations hence \/ Inactivists will bathe under a sun made safe \/ By the collapse of oil-can economics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraversing badlands, sandhills, prairies, suburbia, Miami, London, Dublin, Paris, and beyond, Cole's voice revels in questions of travel while resonating with the \u003ci\u003eunheimlich\u003c\/i\u003e \"Canadalienation\" of his expatriate existence. Whether bog surfing, gallery hopping, bug hunting, or meditating on the \"strange genre\" of national anthems, the poems in Cole's long-awaited follow-up collection to his critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eQuestions in Bed\u003c\/i\u003e exist in a searching exchange with the world, both entering and being entered by it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889302651031,"sku":"9781773101088","price":1544.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781773101088.webp?v=1781175574","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/soft-power-9781773101088","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}