{"product_id":"arbor-vitae-paperback","title":"Arbor Vitae - 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\u003eMaureen Alsop\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLove is the elixir which heals. Love offers dignity and connection and allows room for the most potent and challenging of reparations: forgiveness. Like a double-exposed photograph, the language in \u003cem\u003eArbor Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e, \"the tree of life,\" offers a delicate ribboning of shifting perspectives. The narration is activated as a witness, as consciousness is observed, and trespasses a \"bare view\" of a multilayered landscape. Here, a pensive topography of solitude and loss unfolds. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book-length pastoral poem seeks accountability and compassion for institutional and political trauma.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Recent and historic human rights abuses merge to encompass a devastation that imprints the collective psyche. As Whitman writes, the scenery is the source: \"the smallest sprout... goes onward and outward, nothing collapses.\" \u003cem\u003eArbor Vita\u003c\/em\u003ee, in a dream state, from the shores of Guantanamo to the unfiltered \"sun-burnished pines\" of the multi-continental holocaust, seeks hope, seeks language as a root or a sapling that might break through the asphalt. Over amends for the disgrace of human rights abuses -voices merge in a textural elegiac for what might lift upward-unfurling leaves, harnessed, toward that one push into a great light.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53522252431667,"sku":"9781962890038","price":25.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cbMyHxgeZY9781962890038.webp?v=1781968010","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/arbor-vitae-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}