{"product_id":"openbound-poems-of-relation-paperback","title":"Openbound: Poems of Relation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffery Donaldson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe trouble with honesty, it has no \/ final answers, leaves you in the cranny \/ where nothing left unknown meets finding out.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe puzzles of poetry and marriage are these: How to hold on to what you also release? How to protect love when other loves are put between? In this collection of sixty-nine \"fifteeners\" - sonnet-like constellations of five tercets - Jeffery Donaldson explores the outcomes of both questions over the course of a life in verse and a loving thirty-one-year open marriage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems orbit around two readings that Donaldson and his wife chose for their wedding: a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke about two people protecting one another's solitude; and a scene from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e in which the prince is told, \"You are responsible for your rose.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eopenbound\u003c\/i\u003e turns toward open marriage itself - its risks, its revelations, its misunderstandings, its wounds under cultural scrutiny - the work reveals itself foremost as a book of love poems, continuing Donaldson's long devotion to a metaphoric both\/and poetics capacious enough to hold loving and freedom in the same breath.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffery Donaldson teaches English at McMaster University and is the author of poetry collections \u003ci\u003ePalilalia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWaterglass \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eMissing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.2 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924630896947,"sku":"9780228029311","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/EWedAeBVc9780228029311.webp?v=1793832691","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/openbound-poems-of-relation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}