{"product_id":"9781909747968","title":"This Thing of Blood \u0026 Love","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Saunders, Lesley \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; literary studies\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 21 February 2022 by Two Rivers Press in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 84 pages\u003cbr\u003e135 x 210 x 11 | 112g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Thing of Blood \u0026amp; Love, Lesley Saunders' fifth collection with Two Rivers Press, is an intense examination of human culpability, the secrets we half-keep from ourselves, the contradictory selves we inhabit, the histories that live on unreconciled in us, the planet whose imperfect stewards we are; and above all the unfathomable mystery of being (in) a body, incarnated, made flesh - a thing of blood and love that betrays us with its appalling vulnerabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this book display the celebratory delight in language which has continued to impress readers and reviewers of Saunders' work, though here imbued with a disturbed and disturbing awareness of mortality - the ultimate vulnerability from which in the end we derive our deepest sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925442560259,"sku":"9781909747968","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781909747968.jpg?v=1731417650","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9781909747968","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}