{"product_id":"live-ones-paperback","title":"Live Ones - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSadie McCarney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With the prismatic eye of a witch-blessed Alden Nowlan, Sadie McCarney sculpts a hard-won beauty into the passion of her lines.\" --Marilyn Bowering, author of \u003ci\u003eThreshold\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Alchemy of Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sadie McCarney's first full-length poetry collection grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada. Ranging from pellet-gunned backyard butterflies to a chorus of encroaching ghosts, \u003ci\u003eLive Ones\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of death, seeing them as intimately wedded to lives well-lived. Personal myth-making collides with grocery shopping, ancient history turns out to be alive and well in modern-day Milford, Nova Scotia, and the complexities of queer female desire call out to us from beyond the grave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"McCarney's poems hook you with the first line. Her writing crosses between quotidian and fantastical with such ease that you'll climb into the unreal like a child climbs onto a school bus. From folks in an almost normal Black Friday lineup to a surviving child relieving a family home of its contents, each character implicates you in their business.\" --Kathy Mac, author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Misunderstanding\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"McCarney writes with photographic intensity and a lilting ear: bumblebee, lime, chokeweed, toucan, 'the dead, but once or twice removed.' \u003ci\u003eLive Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is a book rife with honesty, vulnerability, and a stark ability to transform even the most minute of objects into dancing flora.\" --Joshua Whitehead, author of \u003ci\u003efull-metal indigiqueer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSadie McCarney's poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePlenitude, Grain, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, The Puritan, Room, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry in English, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other places. She lives in Charlottetown. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327867556077,"sku":"9780889776500","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/i6cwjMt7Ls9780889776500.webp?v=1784884037","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/live-ones-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}