{"product_id":"short-talks-brick-books-classics-1-9781771313421","title":"Short Talks: Brick Books Classics 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of \u003ci\u003eShort Talks\u003c\/i\u003e features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a ?Short Talk on Afterwords? by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst issued in 1992, this is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. \u003ci\u003eShort Talks\u003c\/i\u003e can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe youth at night would have himself driven around the scream. It lay in the middle of the city gazing back at him with its heat and rosepools of flesh. Terrific lava shone on his soul. He would ride and stare.\u003c\/i\u003e Short Talk on the Youth at Night?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eShort Talks: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ?Short Talks is a unique form of slag-like poetic address that arises from the full formative force of Carson's young embodiment of a northern Ontario mining-town winter of mind. Margaret Christakos, from the Introduction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-505279\"\u003eAnne Carson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.57h x 5.54w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771313421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771313420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE011000\"\u003eCanadian | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023000\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702562918637,"sku":"9781771313421","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8b1508eb-3f9e-4c40-b4b0-a8a6837e9959.jpg?v=1649963122","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/short-talks-brick-books-classics-1-9781771313421","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}