{"product_id":"ventriloquise-book-ned-denny-9781800173316","title":"Ventriloquise","description":"Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2024  And deeper still than this, my eyes penetrate far into the earth as if it was an agate: foundations, dungeons, subterranean cities where thwarted joyance wages its atrocities... (from 'Dusk: An Antique Song')  Ned  Denny's startling new collection recalls what Heidegger says – in his  essay on Hölderlin – about the poet, of all mortals, reaching most  deeply into the abyss. In what does this abyss, the \"world's night,\"  consist? In the fact that the gods have departed, and in the rootless,  heaven-proof and now worldwide technocracy forged in their absence. Yet  the poet is also the one who sees, in that night, the lost gods' traces,  and there are glimpses here \"through a veil of names\" of nature's  saving radiance, of the indestructible delicacy of Claude's last  landscape, of a \"wild grin of insect glee\" just beyond the confines of  sleep. As Denny's adept voice 'throws' itself into and through other  texts, forms, places, things and times – including works by Heine,  classical Chinese poets, Pindar, Ronsard, Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Victor  Hugo and Lorca – it becomes clear that the fathoming of our iron age is  inseparable from the coming dawn.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49506661368081,"sku":"GOR013288770","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744889938193,"sku":"NGR9781800173316","price":17.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52889005752593,"sku":"CIN1800173318LN","price":19.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800173318.jpg?v=1756707894","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ventriloquise-book-ned-denny-9781800173316","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}