{"product_id":"wellwater-poems","title":"Wellwater: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Wellwater, Karen Solie's sixth collection, explore the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of \"value,\" addressing housing, economic and environmental crisis, and aging and its incumbent losses. In an era of accelerating inequality, places many of us thought of as home have become unaffordable. In \"Basement Suite,\" the faux-utopian economy of Airbnb suggests people with property \"share\" it with us and, presumably, we should be grateful. In \"Parables of the Rat\" the speaker feels affinity with scavengers while also wanting the rats gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving grown up in Saskatchewan on a small family farm, Solie sees the economic and environmental crises as inseparable. Climate change has made small farming increasingly untenable, allowing overbearing corporate control of food production. But hope, Solie argues, is as necessary to addressing the crises of our time as bearing witness, in poems that celebrate wonder and persistence in the non-human world. Tamarack forests in Newfoundland that grow inches over hundreds of years, the suddenly thriving pronghorn antelope, or a new, unidentified and ineradicable climbing vine, all hint at renewal, and a way to move forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781487013400\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Karen Solie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e House of Anansi Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:none\"\u003e400 3400 13400 013400\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Batner Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934378164312,"sku":"9781487013400","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/7564\/3992\/files\/9781487013400.jpg?v=1775056893","url":"https:\/\/batnerbookstore.com\/products\/wellwater-poems","provider":"Batner Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}