{"product_id":"the-lost-coyote-9798233168109","title":"The Lost Coyote","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John P. Portelli\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sulfur Editions, Horizons\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sulfur Editions, Horizons\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn P. Portelli's\u003c\/strong\u003e The Lost Coyote is a profound meditation on dislocation as a metaphysical state, an unflinching document of the human spirit's endurance amid catastrophic temporal and geographic rupture. This collection transcends mere memoir or political commentary, operating instead as a rigorous philosophical inquiry into the dialectic of belonging and exile, where the concept of \"home\" is eternally reduced to the \"in-between\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortelli employs a stark, almost cinematic lyricism to expose the scars of history, weaving personal memory-fragments of past loves, Mediterranean seascapes, and domestic moments -into the massive, impersonal horror of geopolitical violence. His poetry performs a constant deconstruction of time, where \"yesteryear\" and the present are fused by perpetual trauma. The clock face-a recurring visual and thematic motif -serves not as a measure of linear progress, but as a circular witness to a history that ceaselessly repeats its atrocities. The titular \"lost coyote\" is the ultimate symbol of the alienated subject: an existence \"unnoticed\", howling at a universe that remains taciturn. Love, when it appears, is framed by its own futility and transience, a brief \"fictitious embrace\" or a fragile desire caged by a world that demands a \"perfect silence\". This is a necessary, formidable work that establishes Portelli as a major voice charting the enduring sorrow and moral complexity of a globalized, yet fragmented, world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sulfur Editions, Horizons","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594334421143,"sku":"9798233168109","price":744.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233168109.webp?v=1774985606","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-lost-coyote-9798233168109","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}