{"product_id":"book-of-the-snow","title":"Book Of The Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize 2011.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of this winner of the 1991 Max-Jacob Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e consists of 112 short poems inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where the falling snow gives rise to a sequence of poems that are both lyrical and suffused with irony, allusion and paradox.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e is Jacqmin''s twelfth poetry collection and is translated by Philip Mosley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois Jacqmin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1929 in Belgium and spent his formative years in England during the Second World War, writing his first poems in English. His distinctive identity as a writer is inspired primarily by botany and metaphysics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Mosley\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English, Communications, and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. As well as being a highly-regarded translator, he is author of books on Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Ingmar Bergman and Belgian cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310146429310,"sku":"NW9781904614555","price":10.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781904614555.jpg?v=1778512557","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/book-of-the-snow","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}