{"product_id":"9798986614595","title":"Outside the Joy","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cfont face=\"arial, sans-serif\"\u003e\"Part ode, part elegy, part protection spell, Ruth Awad’s \u003ci\u003eOutside the Joy\u003c\/i\u003e holds at its radiant heart precarity itself. These poems inventory the losses, the mercies, and the small miracles in this life that is not ours for long: Here is the moon as freckled as a mother’s skin, and here is the “sunlight that arrives\/\/first at your window, quietly pawing\/ even when you can’t stand it.” What a gift to be haunted by these words.\"  \u003c\/font\u003e—Maggie Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOutside the Joy is poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal  loss and environmental collapse. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing losses both interpersonal and universal – from a mother’s failing heart to environmental and economic decline ravaging ancestral homelands – OUTSIDE THE JOY is a compendium of abundance in a world rife with want. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a voice as singular as it is illuminating, Awad explores the sharp contrasts of our shared existence: the human capacity to hurt and to hold one another, the love and grief that grow from our ephemeral connectedness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems unearth the sacred in the ordinary and invite you to do the same – “if only \/ you’ll let the world \/ soften you with its touching.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ruth Awad","offers":[{"title":"Third Man Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-09-13","offer_id":45663916916991,"sku":"9798986614595","price":27.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/719mFVhz7uL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1723735906","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9798986614595","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}