{"product_id":"listening-isbn-9780771008863","title":"Listening","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more than forty years.\"The radiant authority of Avison’s art, everywhere on display in this affective as well as effective volume, derives from a life spent observing, assimilating, listening and, most crucially, taking note of all that fills her senses. She opens her heart to the universe and, in so doing, finds fulfilment within its wondrous and often incomprehensibly wicked ways.\"\u003cbr\u003e— Judith Fitzgerald, \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003eMargaret Avison’s work had, over the course of her four-decade-long career, won numerous awards, including two Governor General’s Awards and, for \u003cb\u003eConcrete and Wild Carrot\u003c\/b\u003e, the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her books of poetry include \u003cb\u003eAlways Now: The Collected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e and, most recently, \u003cb\u003eMomentary Dark\u003c\/b\u003e. Margaret Avison died in July 2007, in Toronto.August. Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom lamplight on a glossy page\u003cbr\u003emy eyes lift: now not\u003cbr\u003einsects’ footprints along\u003cbr\u003egleamy paper, but a\u003cbr\u003ewash of diluted, cold\u003cbr\u003egreen tea with\u003cbr\u003edust-bunny clouds afloat\u003cbr\u003esouthward, grape-tinted once but\u003cbr\u003efast fading. A\u003cbr\u003elast lick of\u003cbr\u003eivory light tinctures\u003cbr\u003ea tall, very far over,\u003cbr\u003ewall.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301287514341,"sku":"NP9780771008863","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771008863.jpg?v=1767731509","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/listening-isbn-9780771008863","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}