{"product_id":"lacunae-new-poems","title":"Lacunae: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e This is a book to savor slowly and return to often.\"\u003c\/i\u003e --\u003cb\u003eMalcolm Guite\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSounding the Seasons \u003c\/i\u003eand other collections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften, when speaking of what he has called the \u003ci\u003epoetic operation of language\u003c\/i\u003e, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our \"glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space.\" This is the poet's continuing fascination with \u003ci\u003elacunae\u003c\/i\u003e, those spaces, those openings that offer more \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or--in the case of the Theotokos--\u003ci\u003ea womb\u003c\/i\u003e can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.","brand":"Scott Cairns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51938537210087,"sku":"9781640608818","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0913\/8151\/files\/9781640608818-us.jpg?v=1775062714","url":"https:\/\/neighborbookstx.com\/products\/lacunae-new-poems","provider":"Neighbor Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}