{"product_id":"9781951142421","title":"The Perseverance","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeatured on NPR's \u003ci\u003eMorning Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of the Year at \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Sunday Times,\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry School, New York Public Library, and \u003ci\u003eEntropy\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Ted Hughes Award, Rathbones Folio Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award; finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and Reading the West Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ \u003ci\u003eThe Perseverance\u003c\/i\u003e travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard \/ the golden decibel of angels, \/ I have been living in a noiseless \/ palace where the doorbell is pulsating \/ light and I am able to answer.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Perseverance\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems examining a d\/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.","brand":"Raymond Antrobus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48675285762260,"sku":"9781951142421","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0431379b-26b3-4221-b3fc-66d768bd5152.jpg?v=1789511938","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781951142421","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}