{"product_id":"meditatio-placentae-book-monty-reid-9781771314398","title":"Meditatio Placentae","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging meditation by an accomplished poet on the uncontainable materiality of the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom yoghurt tubs to pop-up books to bobcats, from cement trucks to lost socks to the products of conception, \u003ci\u003eMeditatio Placentae,\u003c\/i\u003e Monty Reid's twelfth collection, is a book about unruly stuff. Stuff that functions but also stuff that exceeds, stuff that dreams. A gathering of short poems wrapped into longer sequences, this is a book that pays attention to the world, in all its dizzying forms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eMeditatio Placentae\u003c\/i\u003e cluster around certain ideas, experiences, narratives; sometimes they cohere, sometimes they only assemble, but they are always at crossroads where people and objects collide. In these poems matter itself--including the placenta of the title poem--is vibrant, and argues for its rightful recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When the time comes, the broken water disappears\u003cbr\u003e into the seam of itself, and then the carry-on full of small bones\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003earticulated as an I will also disappear.\u003cbr\u003e They will be expecting me then.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd what would be the point of hanging on?\u003cbr\u003e Just to be the lining of belief, after belief itself is gone?\" (from \"Meditatio Placentae\")\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67615493095697,"sku":"NLS9781771314398","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781771314398.jpg?v=1790906219","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/meditatio-placentae-book-monty-reid-9781771314398","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}