{"product_id":"the-reinvention-of-the-human-hand-isbn-9780771087431","title":"The Reinvention of the Human Hand","description":"Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. \u003cb\u003eThe Reinvention of the Human Hand\u003c\/b\u003e is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eBurn\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Fat Kid\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eBetween the Walls\u003c\/b\u003e. Vermeersch has always gone in search of understanding. Now his discoveries speak of a human world exhausted by its divorce from an animal past, terrified of retreating into early places it never truly left, astonished by the forgotten possibilities disclosed there.I\u003cbr\u003eThe Painted Beasts of Lascaux \u003cbr\u003eA Scorpion in Alcohol \u003cbr\u003eOde to \u003ci\u003eAmoeba proteus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBosch Landscape 2010 \u003cbr\u003eHands \u003cbr\u003eThe Formation of the Pack \u003cbr\u003eAltarpiece with False Teeth and Parkinson’s Disease \u003cbr\u003eThe Sadness Will Last Forever \u003cbr\u003eTwenty-one Days with a Baboon Heart \u003cbr\u003eAnother Effect of Global Warming \u003cbr\u003eElegy for Paul Winchell \u003cbr\u003eApe \u003cbr\u003eBoys Who Envy Werewolves \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eII\u003cbr\u003eI Am Happy to Live in an Age of Plenty \u003cbr\u003eBasic Instructions for Anaesthesia \u003cbr\u003eOld Punk \u003cbr\u003ePrayer to a Saint \u003cbr\u003eSmoke \u003cbr\u003eIn the Glorious Absence of Gods \u003cbr\u003eLast of the Blondes \u003cbr\u003eThe Threatened Swan \u003cbr\u003eRingtones \u003cbr\u003eProsthetic Leg in Storage \u003cbr\u003eA Photograph of the Human Retina \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIII\u003cbr\u003eSorrow for Frogsong \u003cbr\u003eIn Joseph Merrick’s London \u003cbr\u003eThe Marriage of the Nuclei \u003cbr\u003eDogstar \u003cbr\u003eLove as an Argument in Theoretical Physics \u003cbr\u003eA Glass Eye Finds Its Purpose \u003cbr\u003eThe Reinvention of the Human Hand \u003cbr\u003eHe Considers the Possibility that None of This Is Real \u003cbr\u003eThis Is Where Your Life Begins \u003cbr\u003eThree Anthropomorphic Studies \u003cbr\u003eBeautiful and Swift \u003cbr\u003eThe Demolition of Heaven \u003cbr\u003eCloud Formation like a Map of the World \u003cbr\u003eLost Things \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/i\u003e\"Vermeersch is one of Canada's best young poets. [His poems] explore the tension between the natural world and the artifice of our society, and the collision between the public sphere and the secret corners of our private lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eVancouver Province\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Vermeersch\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three previous collections of poetry and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe I.V. Lounge Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Al Purdy A-frame Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared frequently in the\u003ci\u003e Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and been featured on CBC Radio. His poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada, the United States and Europe. He lives in Toronto, teaches at Sheridan College, and is the poetry editor for Insomniac Press.\u003cb\u003ethe painted beasts of lascaux\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir discovery has been a kind of homecoming, too.\u003cbr\u003ePart of you has been here before, germinal, hidden.\u003cbr\u003eA painted hand resting on the stone, a molecule,\u003cbr\u003ea memory of muscled, brawling bulls entombed\u003cbr\u003edeep within, their horns goring the darkness\u003cbr\u003elocked in the rock of ages. These yellow ochre horses\u003cbr\u003ewere born too long before they could be anything\u003cbr\u003ebut horses, before they could be centaurs, before\u003cbr\u003ethey could be starships. Remember, these herds\u003cbr\u003eare the same on these walls as they were in their fi elds,\u003cbr\u003ethe same as they are in your mind. Listen.\u003cbr\u003eTheir hoof beats trampling this ancestral earth\u003cbr\u003eare still the drums that drive the song in your blood,\u003cbr\u003ethe abiding chant of the hundred billion dead\u003cbr\u003ewho came before you. Their distant voices vanished\u003cbr\u003einto your voice, deepening it. Their song the song\u003cbr\u003ethat’s been snarled in your heart – breaking it,\u003cbr\u003etrying to pound its way free – for your entire life.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300475228389,"sku":"NP9780771087431","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771087431.jpg?v=1767741204","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-reinvention-of-the-human-hand-isbn-9780771087431","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}