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Fagan is writing some of the wisest and alluring poems of our day.\" - Beckian Fritz Goldberg","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49626249462033,"sku":"GOR013690905","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49788143337745,"sku":"CIN0970817746G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0970817746.jpg?v=1761388127"},{"product_id":"bad-hobby-book-kathy-fagan-9781571315458","title":"Bad Hobby","description":"From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.  In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a “fatal diagnosis,” how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body “meant to bend \u0026amp; breed” opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our “common griefs” so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these—a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates.  Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a “child who won’t ever get born”: with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. “You think your one life precious—”  And Bad Hobby thinks—hard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces “inside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to \/ shatter the glass of our locked cars \u0026amp; save us.” And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. “Don’t worry, baby,” Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. “We’re okay.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742370144529,"sku":"NGR9781571315458","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50908388491537,"sku":"CIN1571315454G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037883433233,"sku":"NIN9781571315458","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52591557673233,"sku":"NLS9781571315458","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1571315454.jpg?v=1751213056"},{"product_id":"sycamore-book-kathy-fagan-9781571314734","title":"Sycamore","description":"One of the most inventive, vulnerable, and moving collections I have read in years.Randall Mann","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392991793425,"sku":"CIN1571314733A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392995397905,"sku":"CIN1571314733G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038133747985,"sku":"NIN9781571314734","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52469204713745,"sku":"CIN1571314733VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52477000843537,"sku":"NLS9781571314734","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52569164120337,"sku":"GOR014553316","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1571314733.jpg?v=1751181253"},{"product_id":"moving-and-street-rage-book-kathy-fagan-9781574410662","title":"Moving and Street Rage","description":"Kathy Fagan's long awaited second collection keeps revealing new strengths, new powers. Its words are of unsparing rigor; its intelligence and vision continually spring forward in changed ways. These are poems both revealing and resistant: deeply felt, deeply communicative, yet avoiding any easy lyricism. Again and again the reader pauses, astonished by some fresh turn of language, of insight, of terrain. 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Favouring perspective over nostalgia and clarity over certainty, the poems are, then, memento mori, a loving reminder, a poet’s reckoning with the rewards and losses of age and with our painfully beautiful little lives “rounded with a sleep.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53097680503057,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53097680830737,"sku":"NGR9781324131397","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781324131397.jpg?v=1770289030"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-kathy-fagan.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}