{"product_id":"reckonings-patrick-moran-salmon-poetry","title":"Reckonings; Patrick Moran (Salmon Poetry)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: As New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Moran's fourth collection, Reckonings, traces the poet's journey from a rural upbringing, marked by religious fervor, to a world of fraught intensities and troubled legacies. Having charted his progress through a diocesan boarding school, where he takes his first, tentative steps as a poet, Moran next focuses on early adulthood, a period of existential questing and drifting, when he struggles to find a voice in the classroom and on the page. While the last section opens on a buoyant note, with a group of marriage poems, echoes of earlier turbulence are still heard, notably in \"Spectral\" where nightmares disrupt his sleep and memories rip open\/ (his) delicate\/ stitching. Indeed, the past - its mulding, its affirmations, its shadowing - pervades Moran's reckonings in this section: whether in taking stock of his teaching career; in reassessing his heritage; or brooding, characteristically, on blighted lives and might-have-beens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Reckonings tries to keep faith with its formative influences, the poet bears witness, in these unsparingly honest lyrics, to his life and times: turning, as he observes in \"Makings\",\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehis restless days\u003cbr\u003einto jottings, numbered pages:\u003cbr\u003eas if the unrecorded life\u003cbr\u003ewere not worth living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48285077111129,"sku":"4417","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/files\/Reckonings_PatrickMoran_SalmonPoetry.jpg?v=1714649950","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.pro\/products\/reckonings-patrick-moran-salmon-poetry","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}