{"product_id":"9780771020063","title":"The World After Rain","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean LiteratureNamed a Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2025 by CBC Books \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.”—Dionne Brand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn her signature epic vision, Canisia Lubrin distills a radiant elegy for her mother along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment, belonging as much to history as to today. Grief, tender and searing, is the channel through which the poet refracts the realm of contemporary life to reveal the blistering paradox of its private and public entanglements. This is poetry of haunting gravity and resonance, with meditations on love, time, and loss, at once meticulously far-seeing, interior, and inexpressible.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewoman from fine-print time, disclose to the world:\u003cbr\u003e        the forecast of our noontime births outdoors; how I distrust\u003cbr\u003eevery form of authority, chiefly my own astonishment\u003cbr\u003e        this poisoned wish is why I love, I bow to deserts,\u003cbr\u003ethese claychildren of forests everywhere  \u003cbr\u003e        I love the rain, this is no secret, I love the solar wind;  \u003cbr\u003ehold their elliptical life in the wasteland of our third mouths\u003cbr\u003e        where flowers are invisible and bones are sanded and amusing,\u003cbr\u003eand every heliopause cloud senses our head, how we astonish\u003cbr\u003e        our memories vining where no shade is enough,\u003cbr\u003esince many who’ll feed me will refuse me their names,\u003cbr\u003e        and good, who knows what bargains I would make\u003cbr\u003ewith their meanings, more bundles of thyme . . .\u003cbr\u003e        tournaments of family recipes with you at my question,","brand":"Canisia Lubrin (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Paper over boards","offer_id":47260071035092,"sku":"9780771020063","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6fc74f31-7b57-41ad-a6e6-eeff054cfd4d.jpg?v=1763160336","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780771020063","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}