{"product_id":"paper-crown","title":"Paper Crown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her'' Kaveh Akbar, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This is a stunning book'' Jericho Brown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e is Heather Christle''s first new collection of poems in over a decade. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout these exhuberant poems, Christle conjures moments when the world''s events - a child''s words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinners with friends - alight themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWIth tenderness and verse, honesty and curiosity, \u003ci\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to look up from its pages and recognise that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMistake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor years I have seen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003edead animals on the highway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand grieved for them \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eonly to realize they are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003enot dead animals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ethey are t shirts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eor bits of blown tire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand I have found\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003emyself with this\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eexcess of grief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have made with \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eno object to let\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eit spill over and\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have not known\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ewhere to put it or\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ekeep it and then today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI thought \u003ci\u003eI know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can give it to you\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305199739262,"sku":"NW9781472158680","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472158680.jpg?v=1778561833","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/paper-crown","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}