{"product_id":"9781643623108","title":"Perennial Counterpart","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetic study in magical modes of connection over distance—how both friendship and reading are similar ways of being together while being alone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten over several years of solitude, study, and transformation, the poems in \u003ci\u003ePerennial Counterpart\u003c\/i\u003e trace an evolving, self-questioning practice of thinking-in-poetry where long, reflective lines—evoking both prose \u0026amp; photography—brush against elliptical, fractured modes of film and literary criticism. Anchored by the author’s obsessive reading life, this is a book where lyric inquiry becomes its own form of company and the poem is written to remake its writer through glittering connections to a personal lineage of thought.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yongyu Chen","offers":[{"title":"Nightboat Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-04-17","offer_id":47353578291455,"sku":"9781643623108","price":29.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_430ddbd1-e5b6-4b89-8595-d58b0dea6bf3.jpg?v=1760541121","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781643623108","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}