{"product_id":"household-hints-for-the-end-of-timebooks","title":"Household Hints for the End of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2001 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry * Shortlisted for the 2001 Regina Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards) * Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award * Longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"Max's Bath\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens next? Well I hold you \u003cbr\u003ewhile Peg gets a diaper, you yell \u003cbr\u003ewhen she heads down the hall. \u003cbr\u003eAnd then you pee on me, my \u003cbr\u003eshirt, a consecration \u003cbr\u003eno one else has received. I hold you close, \u003cbr\u003elike the cold spring rain \u003cbr\u003epeering in at us, tapping the \u003cbr\u003eblue windowpane with its \u003cbr\u003etiny dark and pudgy hands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wide-ranging reckless intelligence, verbal audacity and irrepressible humour ? all these combine with a large-hearted embrace of existence in Ken Howe?s poems. Whether they are observing, with fine ironic wit, the vagaries of domestic life, elegizing lost ones, or raised in celebration of musical compositions, they remind us of the need to address the world with all our faculties alert, including a language alive with its native energy and luminosity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howe, Ken","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Poetry)","offer_id":46773830254816,"sku":"","price":8.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4ee7770d-f0e0-4449-bd1b-d9c15a316bdc.jpg?v=1734712482","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/household-hints-for-the-end-of-timebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}